Devlog 1: Glamorous TUI & Dynamic Quotes
#🚀 So what did I do?
#- Upgraded CLI app to a full TUI using BubbleTea.
- Added configuration & flag handling with Viper + Cobra, required some refactoring.
- Integrated zenquote.io so the app now displays inspirational quotes.
- Updated model initialisation so quotes refresh dynamically without blocking the UI.
🧩 What were the challenges / learnings?
#- Understanding each tool and how they fit together was tricky for my first time working with this tech stack.
- Familiartity with Model View Update helped with using BubbleTea. It is based on the Elm architecture and I have used the paradigm before.
- The mose exciting for me, somehow, was updating the model’s
quote property asynchronously and triggering a Tea command to trigger an update in the model and the view, rather than blocking on HTTP requests.
🎯 What’s next?
#- Finish refactoring TUI components OUTSIDE Cobra/Viper components.
- Improve UI layout & styling for unsupported commandline emulators (like qrxvt).
- Add caching for fetched quotes to reduce API calls and allow for quotes in offline-mode.
- Add storage of usage data (like Title, Description, Quotes, and Session Notes) with SQLite.
