Building UIs in Terminal with Laravel Prompts
summary
Demos how Laravel Prompts plus a tiny helper library Chewy render real text UIs by treating the UI as a string function of state, showing exact code for key listeners, word wrap, terminal width/height handling, column zipping and alternate screen rendering. Builds a speaker directory with up/down selection, pinned hotkey help, and a T to open Twitter, shows problems (auto wrap, cursor hiding) and fixes so the app works reliably in a real terminal.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction and welcome
- 1:57What are Laravel Prompts
- 4:46TUI fundamentals
- 7:14Setting up Prompts app
- 10:05Building a counter app
- 12:13Handling user input
- 14:20Terminal window constraints
- 17:07Building speaker directory
- 20:17Selecting speakers
- 23:27Displaying speaker details
- 25:34Immersive full-screen app
- 26:39Adding hotkeys
- 28:22Opening Twitter profiles
- 29:03Advanced TUI examples
- 30:09Q&A and meetup discussion
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