# r3bl_rs_utils

## Why R3BL?

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<!-- R3BL TUI library & suite of apps focused on developer productivity -->

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We are working on building command line apps in Rust which have rich text user interfaces (TUI).
We want to lean into the terminal as a place of productivity, and build all kinds of awesome
apps for it.

1. 🔮 Instead of just building one app, we are building a library to enable any kind of rich TUI
   development w/ a twist: taking concepts that work really well for the frontend mobile and web
   development world and re-imagining them for TUI & Rust.

   - Taking inspiration from things like [React](https://react.dev/),
     [SolidJS](https://www.solidjs.com/),
     [Elm](https://guide.elm-lang.org/architecture/),
     [iced-rs](https://docs.rs/iced/latest/iced/), [Jetpack
     Compose](https://developer.android.com/compose),
     [JSX](https://ui.dev/imperative-vs-declarative-programming),
     [CSS](https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS/#css), but making everything async (so they can
     be run in parallel & concurrent via [Tokio](https://crates.io/crates/tokio)).
   - Even the thread running the main event loop doesn't block since it is async.
   - Using proc macros to create DSLs to implement something inspired by
     [CSS](https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS/#css) &
     [JSX](https://ui.dev/imperative-vs-declarative-programming).

2. 🌎 We are building apps to enhance developer productivity & workflows.

   - The idea here is not to rebuild `tmux` in Rust (separate processes mux'd onto a
     single terminal window). Rather it is to build a set of integrated "apps" (or
     "tasks") that run in the same process that renders to one terminal window.
   - Inside of this terminal window, we can implement things like "app" switching,
     routing, tiling layout, stacking layout, etc. so that we can manage a lot of TUI
     apps (which are tightly integrated) that are running in the same process, in the
     same window. So you can imagine that all these "app"s have shared application
     state. Each "app" may also have its own local application state.
   - Here are some examples of the types of "app"s we plan to build (for which this
     infrastructure acts as the open source engine):
     1. Multi user text editors w/ syntax highlighting.
     2. Integrations w/ github issues.
     3. Integrations w/ calendar, email, contacts APIs.

All the crates in the `r3bl-open-core`
[repo](https://github.com/r3bl-org/r3bl-open-core/) provide lots of useful
functionality to help you build TUI (text user interface) apps, along w/ general
niceties & ergonomics that all Rustaceans 🦀 can enjoy 🎉.

## Table of contents

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- [Introduction](#introduction)
- [Changelog](#changelog)
- [Learn how these crates are built, provide feedback](#learn-how-these-crates-are-built-provide-feedback)

## Introduction
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This library contains some utilities that are useful for building TUI apps in Rust,
like memory arena for non-binary trees.

There used to be a lot more in this library, but we have since moved them to separate
crates in the [`r3bl-open-core`](https://github.com/r3bl-org/r3bl-open-core/) repo.

🤷‍♂️ Fun fact: before we built this crate, we built a library that is similar in
spirit for TypeScript (for TUI apps on Node.js) called
[r3bl-ts-utils](https://github.com/r3bl-org/r3bl-ts-utils/). We have long since
switched to Rust 🦀🎉.

## Changelog
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Please check out the
[changelog](https://github.com/r3bl-org/r3bl-open-core/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#r3bl_rs_utils)
to see how the library has evolved over time.

## Learn how these crates are built, provide feedback
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License: Apache-2.0