Starting a TUI Rust Application - A Postman Alternative

We are starting a new series where we build a TUI based application that is similar to Postman and other applications to send requests.

[@mr.daniish]

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[@ShaunPrince]

Such an underrated channel. I love rust, use it everyday and I always learn thing from your videos. Thank-you.

[@GoRustLang]

Thank you much appreciated. I am glad you like them and learn. It has been a fun journey.

[@joshka7634]

3:14 unfortunately ChatGPT data cutoff dates for most models is before ratatui was forked from tui-rs. It's grown something like 50K LoC since the fork (with about 10K of that being docs)

[@anitamaxcode]

i'm very glad that, i'm not the only one who was lost in the same particular way. i appreciate the work of ratatui a lot but damn the difference from the counter to the json editor is like switching a game from easy to hardcore mode for a rust beginner ^^

[@GoRustLang]

haha for sure. I was shocked at the difference, but once I was able to break it down it made sense.

[@joshka7634]

I mentioned in another comment, the JSON editor was one of the earliest tutorials written and hasn't really been updated much since. The counter tutorials are much newer and take into account both the changes in Ratatui and a better understanding of what things people run into when implementing apps. I rewrote it recently (and still have some more parts to add at some point).

[@anitamaxcode]

@@joshka7634 i just saw your comment now. it's very nice to see that people who are also working on this project (i assume ^^) also look at smaller videos and the comments. i will retake the editor tutorial!

[@joshka7634]

@@anitamaxcode Yeah, someone posted a link to one of Buddy's livestreams on our discord and I took a peek. Watching how new users interact with the library is really useful to understanding what things to explain better / change.

[@paris-panda]

Thanks for the tutorial! I don't know if it's just me who has this preference, but would you consider doing normal tutorial videos (i.e not livestreams)? As interesting as live streams are, sometimes I don't really have the time to go through the whole discovery process and just want to skip ahead to how i actually do the thing. That said, you speak very clearly and explain things well and it looks like you're just getting started with your youtube channel. So hopefully if you try both formats out, you can see which one gets you more viewers... Oh, and also posting a link to source code is always a plus :) Anyway, thanks again for the content and best of luck with the channel! You got +1 Like & Subscribe - Keep up the good work :)

[@GoRustLang]

Ask and you shall receive :D. I just posted my first non-live stream this morning. I do plan to do more of them. They just take a lot of time. That one I released today probably took in the ballpark of 6 to 8 hours from idea, planning, lots of bad example code writing, filming editing etc. Also had to make sure I didn't look stupid 😅. I actually plan to get to a point where I have 3 types of content on the channel 1. livestreams - Tbh I didn't think I would like doing this, but I am enjoying it as it is a fun way to learn and share the experience. Plus explore ideas and areas of rust. 2. Produced content - Short or shorter content that is pre-planned, concise and to the point. 3. Clips - Where I take chunks out of the livestreams that can live standalone on their own so you don't have to deal with the fluff around it I started the channel to push myself to finally learn rust and teach it as a learn it so there is a tight feedback loop for knowing what struggles I have and can help others get through the same ones. So there is going to be a ramp up period where the livestream is going to be the primary video mechanism and as I learn more the Produced content will start to flow. Then eventually when i get good enough clips will start being added as well. That is my current plans. Thanks for the comment and the subcribe I appreciate it.

[@4wiru]

its funny that I recently started with doing the same idea of a project, a couple of days ago

[@4wiru]

using ratatui aswell

[@GoRustLang]

Great minds 😁. I think a lot of people are frustrated with the state of these tools and want a non bloated version

[@4wiru]

@@GoRustLang yeah, i used to use insomnia, but now kong ended that for me, and I've been using curl only