Open Source Rust User Interface (UI) Software

GitUI provides you with the comfort of a git GUI but right in your terminal. I do most of my git work in a terminal but I frequently found myself using git GUIs for some use-cases like index, commit, diff, stash, blame, and log. Unfortunately, popular git GUIs all fail on giant repositories or become unresponsive and unusable. GUI provides you with the user experience and comfort of a git GUI but right in your terminal while being portable, fast, free and open source. The simplest way to start playing around with gitui is to have cargo build and install it with cargo install gitui. gitui should automatically work on both light and dark terminal themes. However, you can customize everything to your liking. Browse commit log, diff committed changes. Scalable terminal UI layout. Async git API for fluid control.

Eww (ElKowar's Wacky Widgets, pronounced with sufficient amounts of disgust) is a widget system made in Rust, which lets you create your own widgets similarly to how you can in AwesomeWM. The key difference: It is independent of your window manager. Configured in yuck and themed using CSS, it is easy to customize and provides all the flexibility you need. Rather than with your system package manager, I strongly recommend installing it using rustup. Additionally, eww requires some dynamic libraries to be available on your system. The exact names of the packages that provide these may differ depending on your distribution.

Iced is a cross-platform, end-user-oriented GUI library for Rust, inspired by The Elm Architecture. It expects you to split user interfaces into four different concepts, which are: the state of your app; messages, which are user interactions or other meaningful events; view logic, which displays your state as widgets that can result in messages; and update logic, which offers a way to update your state and react to messages. Iced is very simple and easy to use, and is type-safe. It offers many great features including built-in widgets and custom widget support, debug overlay, a modular ecosystem and more.

Build reliable user interfaces that run anywhere. Introducing Dioxus, a React-like library for building fast, portable, and beautiful user interfaces with Rust. Runs on the web, desktop, mobile, and more. Easily describe the layout of your application with HTML or RSX syntax. Build encapsulated components that manage their own state, then compose them to make complex UIs. Components and hooks can be reused to render on the web, desktop, mobile, server, and more! 1st class support for asynchronous tasks, suspense for datafetching, and pausable coroutines. Eliminate a whole class of bugs at compile time with static typing for every library. Fearlessly refactor even the largest of apps with powerful compile-time guarantees. No more uncaught exceptions. Components can easily abort rendering without crashing the entire app. Comprehensive doc comments provide MDN hints and guides right under your fingertips.

Introducing gpg-tui, a Terminal User Interface for GnuPG. gpg-tui is a TUI for managing the GnuPG keys In this post, I'm giving a brief introduction to the project as well as describing the thought process and main development challenges behind it. GPGME uses GnuPG's OpenPGP backend as default to provide a high-level crypto API for various operations including key management, which was the thing I needed.

uutils is an attempt at writing universal (as in cross-platform) CLI utilities in Rust. Many GNU, Linux and other utilities are useful, and obviously some effort has been spent in the past to port them to Windows. However, those projects are written in platform-specific C, a language considered unsafe compared to Rust, and have other issues. Rust provides a good, platform-agnostic way of writing systems utilities that are easy to compile anywhere, and this is as good a way as any to try and learn it. The requirements are to have Rust (cargo, rustc), GNU Make (required to build documentation), Sphinx (for documentation), and gzip (for installing documentation). uutils follows Rust's release channels and is tested against stable, beta and nightly. The current oldest supported version of the Rust compiler is 1.43.1. On both Windows and Redox, only the nightly version is tested currently.