Dracon Terminal Engine

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A terminal application framework for Rust — one import, AI builds a complete app.

What It Is

dracon-terminal-engine is a framework for building terminal applications. Not a TUI library — a complete runtime that owns the terminal, input, rendering, and event loop. Mouse-friendly, z-indexed planes, 37 built-in widgets, 20 themes, dirty rendering, and focus management.

Command-driven architecture — every widget binds a CLI command, AI can enumerate all actions via ctx.available_commands() and trigger them via ctx.run_command().

One import to rule them all:

use dracon_terminal_engine::framework::prelude::*;

App::new().unwrap()
    .title("My App")
    .fps(30)
    .theme(Theme::cyberpunk())
    .on_tick(|_ctx, _tick| { /* called every 250ms */ })
    .run(|ctx| {
        let items = vec!["Files", "Search", "Git", "Settings"];
        let list = List::new(items);
        let (w, h) = ctx.compositor().size();
        ctx.add_plane(list.render(Rect::new(0, 0, w, h)));
    });

Framework (v29)

The framework module provides the complete application runtime:

Every widget can bind a CLI command. AI can enumerate all actions via ctx.available_commands() and trigger them via ctx.run_command():

// In a tick callback, AI can:
let cmds = ctx.available_commands();  // List all 50+ available commands
for cmd in cmds {
    println!("{}: {}", cmd.label, cmd.description);
}

// Trigger any action:
let (stdout, stderr, code) = ctx.run_command("dracon-sync status --json");

37 Framework Widgets

Utilities

App Architecture (New in v29)

v29.11.0 — See CHANGELOG for full history.

License

MIT or Apache-2.0, at your option.