Tag: tutorial

Getting Started with Bubbles in TypeScript: Spinners, Inputs, Lists and Tables for Terminal Apps

A from-zero guide to @oakoliver/bubbles, the TypeScript port of Charm's component library for Bubble Tea. Add a spinner, a text input, a filterable list and a table to a terminal app, then combine two components with focus switching. Every program runs on Node, Bun and Deno.

Getting Started with Bubble Tea in TypeScript: Interactive Terminal Apps in Six Small Programs

A from-zero guide to @oakoliver/bubbletea, the TypeScript port of Charm's Bubble Tea. Learn the Elm Architecture with a counter, then add key handling, timers, full-screen mode and printed output, and finish with a styled todo app. Every program runs on Node, Bun and Deno.

Getting Started with pageindex: Tree Indexes for Reasoning-Based RAG

A hands-on introduction to pageindex, the TypeScript port of PageIndex: turn a Markdown document into a tree of sections from the CLI and from code, thin the tree, add summaries through any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, and write the tree-search loop that answers questions from the right section. Offline first, with clear notes on which steps need an LLM.

Getting Started with Glow: Read Markdown in Your Terminal

Install one npm package and your terminal renders Markdown: files, stdin, URLs, a browsable TUI for a whole docs folder, styles, a git hook that shows the changelog after every pull, and an npm script for your project's docs. Every command here was run as written.

Getting Started with bm25s: Full-Text Search in TypeScript Without a Search Server

A hands-on introduction to bm25s, the TypeScript port of Python's BM25 library: index a corpus, rank results with scores, pick a BM25 variant, tune k1 and b, add stopwords and stemming, save and load an index, and finish with a small CLI that searches your Markdown notes. Every example runs on Node, Bun and Deno.

Getting Started with Huh in TypeScript: Terminal Forms in Ten Minutes

From npm install to a working project scaffolder: one question, a multi-field form, validation, themes, and a script that writes real files. Every snippet in this guide was run as written, on Node and Bun, and every animation is a recording of that run.