Designing a useful terminal dashboard
Command-line interfaces don’t have to be limited to text. With termdash, a popular Golang library, you can build a terminal dashboard providing users with a user interface to visually see progress, alerts, text, and more. Colorful widgets placed within a clean dashboard that’s been neatly laid out can increase information density and present a lot of information to the user in a very user-friendly manner. In this section, we’ll learn about the library and the different layout choices and widget options. At the end of the chapter, we’ll design a terminal dashboard that we can implement in our audio file command-line interface.
Learning about Termdash
Termdash is a Golang library that provides a customizable and cross-platform, terminal-based dashboard. On the project’s GitHub page, a fun and colorful demo provides an example of all possible widgets demonstrated within a dynamic layout. From the demo, you...
