Ratatui

A Rust library that's all about cooking up terminal user interfaces (TUIs)

Website: https://ratatui.rs
GitHub: https://github.com/ratatui

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2026-08-16 20:02:21 UTC

Building a roguelike in the terminal with Rust 🦀
A fantastic deep dive into how it all works:
https://blog.hofstede.it/crawlfest-building-a-terminal-roguelike-in-rust/
#rustlang #ratatui #gamedev #blogpost
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2026-08-01 17:38:14 UTC

ratatui-table 0.1.0 is now live! 📢🧀
We created an experimental home for evolving Ratatui’s Table widget! 🎉
More freedom to explore new features and breaking changes!
🐀 Try it out: https://github.com/ratatui/ratatui-table
#rustlang #table #widget #tui #terminal
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2026-06-09 06:59:41 UTC

"How to Stop Arabic from Breaking Your TUI"
Abdul wrote a blog post about Unicode directional isolates.
➡️ Read it here: https://ar-ms.me/thoughts/how-to-stop-arabic-from-breaking-your-tui/
#rustlang #ratatui #blog #terminal #opensource
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2026-05-24 07:36:51 UTC

Ratatui just got fancier with this!
🧀 ratatui-cheese — Bubbletea-inspired components for Ratatui
💯 Spinners, trees, paginators, inputs, selects, palettes & more
⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/shashanktomar/ratatui-cheese
#rustlang #ratatui #tui #terminal #ui
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2026-05-22 09:08:21 UTC

We just got featured in RTL-SDR newsletter! 🥳
sdrrat — An SDR receiver TUI for RTL-SDR & HackRF 🐀
https://www.rtl-sdr.com/sdrrat-an-sdr-receiver-terminal-user-interface-for-rtl-sdr-hackrf/
#rustlang #ratatui #tui #rtlsdr #hackrf
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2026-04-24 08:01:54 UTC

Ratatui just hit 20,000 stars! ⭐🎉
Thank you all! ❤️
Keep cooking 🐀🔥
https://github.com/ratatui/ratatui
#rustlang #ratatui #terminal
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2026-03-19 20:13:36 UTC

We've just surpassed 20 million downloads on crates.io! 🎉🦀🥳
https://crates.io/crates/ratatui
#rustlang #ratatui
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2026-02-24 00:54:28 UTC

The rise of Ratatui 🐁👑
#rustlang #ratatui

2026-02-05 13:46:51 UTC

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Rat inside!
RP2040 Zero + 0.42" 72x40 OLED display

2025-10-15 03:01:49 UTC

Introducing ratatui-garnish! 🥕
🧩 A flexible & type-safe composition system for [@ratatui_rs](https://fosstodon.org/@ratatui_rs ) widgets.
💯 Add borders, titles, shadows, padding and styles dynamically.
📖 Read the article: https://franklaranja.github.io/articles/garnish-your-widgets/
⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/franklaranja/ratatui-garnish
#rustlang #ratatui #tui
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2025-10-01 08:23:49 UTC

The rat needs your help! 🐁
If you know web dev and want to help us design a new landing page, we'd love your contribution!
💰 Reward: 100,000 cheese sticks
🧀 See: https://github.com/ratatui/ratatui-website/pull/888
#rustlang #ratatui #webdev
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2025-09-24 09:04:07 UTC

10,047,315 rats...
Ratatui hit 10M downloads on crates.io 🎉🥳
Thanks to everyone who cooked with us 👨‍🍳
https://github.com/ratatui
#rustlang #ratatui
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2025-09-21 08:28:01 UTC

We don't like cats around but... we do like the catppuccin theme! 🎨
Here is how you can use it with Ratatui ⬇️
⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/catppuccin/rust
#rustlang #ratatui #tui #terminal #theme #catppuccin #opensource
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2025-09-03 10:31:08 UTC

Ratatui running on the RP2040 chip 🔥
➡️ Read the blog post here: https://blog.mjolner.tech/ratatui-pi/
#rustlang #ratatui #tui #embedded #RP2040 #raspberrypi #blog
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2025-08-25 14:02:51 UTC

Ratatui + embedded = mousefood 🧀
https://github.com/j-g00da/mousefood
#rustlang #ratatui #embedded
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2025-08-21 21:42:58 UTC

Announcing the winners of the "Rat in the Wild Challenge" 🐀🧀📢
1. **suzui-rs**: Running Ratatui on a car (Suzuki Baleno)
2. **ratatui-minecraft**: Terminal UIs in Minecraft
3. **Texaform**: A wild terminal game
Each winner will receive a Ratatui apron 👨‍🍳
➡️ Details: https://github.com/ratatui/ratatui/discussions/1886
#rustlang #ratatui #challenge #opensource
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2025-08-07 09:46:47 UTC

📢 SurrealDB just dropped a new blog post using Ratatui! 🐁
⚡ Hybrid vector + Text Search in the terminal
🔍 Fetch Wikipedia articles, link them, run full-text or vector search
➡️ Read it here: https://surrealdb.com/blog/hybrid-vector-text-search-in-the-terminal-with-surrealdb-and-ratatui
#rustlang #ratatui #surrealdb #tui #blog
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2025-07-22 07:22:20 UTC

Ratatui revolutionized terminal UIs in Rust - but what if it went beyond the terminal?🤔
[@j_g00da](https://fosstodon.org/@j_g00da ) gave a talk about:
• running Ratatui on tiny screens
• no_std compatibility
• experimental backends
🪤 Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPjojOuhbe8
#rustlang #ratatui #embedded
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2025-07-16 07:02:37 UTC

Evolution of Ratatui and Tui-rs
#rustlang #ratatui #tui #opensource
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2025-07-15 06:45:34 UTC

Did you know that each terminal render requires one rat to complete one loop on a wheel?

2025-07-03 14:33:02 UTC

Porting Ratatui apps is the new Doom challenge.
📱 Ratatui running on BlackBerry now...
🧀 Join the challenge: https://github.com/ratatui/ratatui/discussions/1886
#ratatui #rustlang #port #tui #terminal #blackberry
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2025-06-11 09:43:23 UTC

Is Ratatui embedded yet? We have some news! 📢🧀
➡️ Read the blog post here: https://jslazak.com/are-we-embedded-yet-2/
**#rustlang** **#ratatui** **#tui** **#embedded**
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2025-06-04 10:35:41 UTC

This was one of the fun problems we tackled recently!
🐭 With the next release, overlapping borders will now merge cleanly instead of clashing.
➡️ Read the full write-up: https://jslazak.com/ratatui-border-merging/
#rustlang #ratatui #tui #unicode
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2025-06-02 14:54:03 UTC

We are kicking off a wild Rust/Ratatui challenge! 🧀🦀
➡️ Details: https://github.com/ratatui/ratatui/discussions/1886
#rustlang #ratatui #tui
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2025-05-29 17:28:15 UTC

Ratatui running on BlackBerry... why not?
🐸 rainfrog — A database management TUI that supports MySQL and SQLite
🔥 Running on an old BlackBerry KeyOne via Termux
⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/achristmascarl/rainfrog
#rustlang #ratatui #tui #database #management #blackberry
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2025-05-24 10:51:42 UTC

Ratatui + embedded = 🧀
https://github.com/j-g00da/mousefood
#rustlang #ratatui #tui #embedded #esp32 #mousefood #framework #graphics
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2025-05-07 21:32:19 UTC

Certified rat moment.
🎉 "no_std" support landed on main branch.
🔥 Running TUIs on your microwave's display soon.
https://github.com/ratatui/ratatui
#ratatui #tui #embedded

2025-05-05 08:12:40 UTC

We are one step closer to "no_std" Ratatui 🐁🦀
█████████████░░ 90%
➡️ Read the blog: https://jslazak.com/are-we-embedded-yet-1/
🧀 New mousefood release, new soft_ratatui backend and more!
#rustlang #ratatui #tui #embedded #backend #blog #terminal
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2025-04-18 08:46:41 UTC

Are We Embedded Yet?
🐭 A blog series for documenting the joint effort of making Ratatui truly portable.
➡️ Read here: https://jslazak.com/are-we-embedded-yet-0/
**#ratatui** **#tui** **#embedded** **#blog** **#post**
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2025-04-03 10:37:01 UTC

We have exciting news!
Visit areweembeddedyet.rs

2025-03-14 19:14:35 UTC

Want to render pretty bar graphs in the terminal?
Check out this Ratatui widget!
📊 tui-bar-graph: https://github.com/joshka/tui-widgets/tree/main/tui-bar-graph
#rustlang #ratatui #tui #terminal #widget #library
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2025-03-13 21:32:13 UTC

Question: Why build a TUI instead of another web application?
🐭 Yann Prono, creator of Yozefu, shares his thoughts about Ratatui and how he built a TUI for searching data in Apache Kafka.
➡️ Read here: https://mcdostone.github.io/articles/why-yozefu/
#rustlang #ratatui #tui #apache #kafka #blog