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Text.js

Text.js is a React framework for building applications that render in a browser's developer console. It provides Box and Text components, a useInput hook for keyboard handling, an App Router with route handlers, and packages for React reconciliation, cell buffering, console output, FIGlet font rendering, and project generation. Each frame is laid out with Yoga, run-length encoded into %c spans, and written through a single console.log call; frames with no changed cells produce no log output. Text.js includes a VS Code extension with live preview and scaffolding, a Chrome DevTools extension with component-tree, frame-inspection, and timeline tools, and an MIT-licensed monorepo. It requires Bun 1.2+ or Node.js 22+ and a desktop Chrome, Edge, Firefox, or Safari browser.

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  • A React framework for apps that render inside the browser's developer console. You write components like box and text, handle keys with a useInput hook, and route pages with an app router, with each frame laid out with yoga and logged once.

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