Bubble Tea
Bubble Tea is a framework based on Elm architecture and designed to develop terminal applications in Go language. It features a cell-based high-performance builder, built-in color reduction, declarative views, and keyboard/mouse management. Applications run through a model that keeps the application status and the Init, Update, and View methods attached to it.
Bubble Tea
100charmbracelet · Terminal & CLI
- With Go, you can develop terminal applications in inline or full window mode.
- You can update the application status with the Update function that manages incoming events.
- Based on the data in the model, you can define the View function that creates the interface.
- • NeutralHacker News
Bubble Tea: fun, functional and stateful way to build terminal apps
“The number one reason is that I can spell Bubble Tea. Something like "imgur" leaves open a lot of possibilities. People are also pretty good at disambiguating things. Fewer than 7% of people ordering from Amazon have ended up in Brazil on accident.”
- • NeutralGitHub Issue
Injecting messages from outside the program loop
“I'm not sure I haven't overlooked something, but I miss a way of injecting messages into a running `tea.Program` from outside the program's execution loop. Currently, programs only process messages returned from either `Init()` or `Update()` or implicitly created for keyboard…”
Verified against README · Oct 26, 2026 · source