fast-rich 0.3.2

High-performance Rust port of Python's popular Rich library.

Beautiful terminal formatting for Rust applications.

[!IMPORTANT] This project is currently in Alpha. APIs are subject to change, and some features may be incomplete.

Fast-Rich empowers your terminal applications with rich text, tables, syntax highlighting, markdown rendering, and more, all with an idiomatic and safe Rust API.

Feature Showcase

Experience the library's breadth with our automated demonstration:

🎨 Professional Assets

📊 Beautiful Tables

Unicode borders, automatic column alignment, and smart wrapping.

💻 Syntax Highlighting

Full support for various themes and languages via syntect.

⏳ Progress Bars

Multi-threaded tracking with spinners, ETAs, and customizable columns.

📈 Live Dashboards

Flicker-free, auto-updating content for real-time monitoring.

🌳 Structural Views

Render hierarchical data and layouts with ease.

Key Features

• Rich Text: Use styled text with bold, italic, underline, and RGB/TrueColor support.
• Markdown Rendering: Render headers, lists, and code blocks directly in your terminal.
• Beautiful Logging: Structured, colored, and timestamped logging compatible with the log crate.
• Extensible API: Create your own renderables and custom style themes.

Installation

Add fast-rich to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
fast-rich = "0.3.2"

To enable all features (including Syntax Highlighting and Markdown, which bring in extra dependencies):

[dependencies]
fast-rich = { version = "0.3.2", features = ["full"] }

Or pick specific features:

[dependencies]
fast-rich = { version = "0.3.2", features = ["syntax", "markdown", "logging"] }

Quick Start

use fast_rich::prelude::*;

fn main() {
    let console = Console::new();

    // Styled text using markup
    console.print("[bold red]Hello[/] [blue]World[/]!");

    // Create a table
    let mut table = Table::new();
    table.add_column("Features");
    table.add_column("Status");
    table.add_row_strs(&["Rich Text", "✅ Ready"]);
    table.add_row_strs(&["Tables", "✅ Ready"]);
    
    // Render the table
    console.print_renderable(&table);
}

📚 Documentation

Detailed guides and API references are available at our official documentation site:

👉 mohammad-albarham.github.io/fast-rich

Essential Resources

• Getting Started: Installation, first steps, and core concepts.
• User Guides: Deep dives into Tables, Progress Bars, Live Display, and more.
• API Reference: Comprehensive technical documentation on docs.rs.
• Examples: Real-world code samples for every feature.

Examples

Run the included examples to see features in action:

# Core features
cargo run --example showcase
cargo run --example hero

# Print macros (drop-in replacement for std::print!)
cargo run --example print_shadowing

# Progress bars and spinners
cargo run --example progress_rich
cargo run --example spinner_column_demo
cargo run --example all_spinners_demo

# Other features
cargo run --example syntax_highlighting --features syntax
cargo run --example live_clock
cargo run --example logging --features logging

Comparisons

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please check out CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines on how to get started.

Contributors

Thanks to everyone who has contributed to Fast-Rich! 🙏

Special thanks to:

• Everyone who has opened issues to report bugs or request features
• All pull request contributors who helped improve the codebase
• The Python Rich team for the original inspiration

License

MIT or Apache-2.0