Are high-level terminal interfaces worth it?...

Eric Are high-level terminal interfaces worth it? Thinking of using Blessed.js in a little fun side project as an alternative to a web interface.

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Mark Dain Try "curl wttr.in" to see what these can sometimes look like. Personally, as a heavy terminal user, I never found "graphical" terminal UIs to be all that useful. Part of the reason to use terminal UIs is to output text that may be used (as input) to other programs or efficiently stored in files

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Eric Completely understand what you mean by the text output, that's why I love terminal too. But I wanted to make this for a little fun & for trying new waters. Building a heavy web interface for something from a Raspberry Pi seemed a little extreme too. Here's something I've thrown together using NodeJS with Blessed & Blessed-Contrib; It's for controlling FM transmissions made from the Pi. i.imgur.com/VFoejr...

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