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.

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

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...

Mark Dain Damn that looks sweet actually; sorta reminds me of the dark Winamp hacker terminal themes I'd sometimes see. Nice job! Honestly I don't have the motivation to write code these days so what you did there looks impossible to me at this point

Eric Thanks, my housemate said its something to show off once finished (back end needs to be finished wiring up). After working on side projects they lose their sparkle personally so the compliment is appreciated! Once that's done it'll be accessible through SSH to the Pi.