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abiodundotdo/termframe

★ 12ShellAudience · developerComplexity · 2/5ActiveSetup · easy

TLDR

Zero dependency Node.js library for composing terminal dashboards from tables, progress bars, spinners, charts, panels, and status badges, bundled with shell scripts that farm GitHub achievement badges.

Mindmap

mindmap
  root((termframe))
    Inputs
      Headers and rows
      Progress values
      Chart series
    Outputs
      Rendered dashboard
      Tables
      Progress bars
      Spinners
    Use Cases
      Build a CLI dashboard
      Show job progress
      Unlock GitHub badges
    Tech Stack
      Node.js
      JavaScript
      Shell

Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Build a terminal dashboard that shows a sortable table next to a progress bar for a long running job

USE CASE 2

Add a spinner and status badges to an existing Node.js CLI tool

USE CASE 3

Draw simple ASCII bar or line charts inside a panel for local monitoring

USE CASE 4

Run the bundled shell scripts to farm GitHub profile achievements like Pull Shark

Tech stack

Node.jsJavaScriptShell

Getting it running

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 30min

README still uses a yourusername placeholder in the clone URL and badges, so the repo looks early stage and the install steps may need manual fixup.

In plain English

termframe presents itself as a small Node.js library for drawing rich command line dashboards in the terminal. The README describes it as zero dependency, meaning it does not pull in other npm packages, and says the goal is to make it easy to compose tables, progress bars, spinners, ASCII charts, panels, and status badges into one full screen layout. The sample code shows the intended style. The user imports a Dashboard class together with Table, ProgressBar, and Chart, creates a dashboard with a title, adds a Table built from a list of headers and rows, adds a ProgressBar with a current value and a maximum, and then calls render to paint everything to the terminal. The component list in the README mentions Table with sorting and borders, ProgressBar with color thresholds, Spinner with over twenty styles, Chart for bar and line views, Panel for bordered content with a title, StatusBadge for inline colored indicators, and Dashboard as the top level container. Installation is by git clone followed by a setup script and an npm install. The README still uses the placeholder yourusername/termframe in its badges and clone URL, so the project appears to be in an early or template state. The repository also ships a folder of shell scripts under scripts/ aimed at unlocking GitHub profile achievements. The README lists quickdraw.sh, yolo.sh, publicist.sh, pull-shark.sh, and pair-extraordinaire.sh, along with a Node script called achievement-tracker.js that reports progress. The README closes by noting that every pull request to the project will help unlock the Pull Shark badge.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Show me a minimal termframe example that renders a Dashboard with a Table and a ProgressBar in under twenty lines.
Prompt 2
Explain how to add color thresholds to a termframe ProgressBar so it turns red past eighty percent.
Prompt 3
Help me build a termframe Panel that contains a Chart and a Spinner, both updating on a one second interval.
Prompt 4
Walk me through the scripts folder in termframe and what each shell script does to a GitHub profile.
Prompt 5
Convert my existing Node CLI to use termframe components instead of console.log for status output.
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