Charm

What is Charm?

Charm is a platform that provides tools and libraries for building command-line applications with a focus on making the command line glamorous. It offers a variety of open-source libraries and applications designed to enhance the user experience of terminal-based tools, including markdown readers, form builders, and SSH app creation tools. Charm aims to improve the developer experience by providing elegant and powerful solutions for command-line interfaces.

How to use Charm?

Charm offers various libraries and applications that can be integrated into existing projects or used as standalone tools. To use a specific library, such as Bubble Tea or Lip Gloss, you would typically install it using a Go package manager and then incorporate it into your Go code. For applications like Glow, you can download and install the binary for your operating system and then run it from the command line.

Charm’s Core Features

Open-source libraries for building terminal user interfaces Tools for rendering markdown in the command line Libraries for creating interactive forms in the terminal Tools for building SSH applications

Charm’s Use Cases

• Building interactive command-line applications with Bubble Tea
• Styling terminal output with Lip Gloss
• Reading markdown files in the terminal with Glow
• Creating SSH applications with Wish
• Generating shell scripts with Gum