Re:Text.js: Build full-stack React apps that render inside c...
by hmokiguess on Saturday November 07, 2026 @11:48AM
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I am trying to think of use cases for this but I can’t think of one. It’s sort of cool, but I need help figuring out who’s the audience for this here. Why would someone need or want this?
Re:Text.js: Build full-stack React apps that render inside c...
by brap on Saturday November 07, 2026 @12:51PM
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I think the main value is buried in the page, and that is it can also render in the terminal, so it’s sort of React for TUI apps? And they built OpenCode with it?
But then why make console.log your main selling point?
Re:Text.js: Build full-stack React apps that render inside c...
by adamdotdev on Saturday November 07, 2026 @03:47PM
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Hey, author here! It’s just for fun :). I think I went too hard on the satire and people thought it was something other than a good time, but it’s just a good time.
Re:Text.js: Build full-stack React apps that render inside c...
by aatd86 on Saturday November 07, 2026 @06:36PM
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Used to think of building something like this for my frontend framework as a way to display help files.
Didn't get to it though and nowadays, the point is moot with AI producing most of the code. Less of a need for framework -help.
Re:Text.js: Build full-stack React apps that render inside c...
by contrahax on Saturday November 07, 2026 @01:01PM
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It looks like the authors also created opencode, and there’s a page about how opencode uses it - so local TUI for agents seems like a primary use case.
Re:Text.js: Build full-stack React apps that render inside c...
by krapp on Saturday November 07, 2026 @01:50PM
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I mean - it has a landing page advertising its features. It has an enterprise tier and a "sales team". It has a merch store. It's clearly not meant to be seen as "just for fun."
> The Chinese term for involution, "neijuan", began trending online in 2020 and was initially used by young people to describe the hypercompetitive and often self-defeating pursuit of traditional markers of success. Some of the contexts they used it in included questioning what was the point of working hard to get into a good school if the reward was working 996 hours (9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days per week) in a tech company? If you were lucky enough to land a job, that is, in an era of high graduate unemployment.
> Though the term is far less commonly used in English, involution comes from a latin term which means "to roll or turn inwards". It was popularised by American cultural anthropologist Clifford Geertz in the 1960s - in relation to his studies of Javanese agriculture - to describe economic or cultural stagnation despite increasing complexity or effort.
> More recently, neijuan has become shorthand in China for the exhausting but also often futile and sometimes self-destructive grind of hyper-competition more broadly.The concept is now also linked to the country’s pivot from property-driven growth to an industrial complex encompassing a third of global manufacturing, which has seen more recources invested without any accompanying increase in returns. It's a race to the bottom.
Re:Text.js: Build full-stack React apps that render inside c...
by adamdotdev on Saturday November 07, 2026 @03:49PM
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The marketing site is entirely satire :). But the framework works and there’s lots of resources to guide you along if you want to render an app in the console.
But then why make console.log your main selling point?
Autism is a hell of a drug
Way ahead of you boss!
Or maybe I'm just naive about big enterprise's appetite for a library that guarantees 99.99% console uptime.
It’s very strange
Over time the available value that could be added should be increasing
> https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/what-i...
> The Chinese term for involution, "neijuan", began trending online in 2020 and was initially used by young people to describe the hypercompetitive and often self-defeating pursuit of traditional markers of success. Some of the contexts they used it in included questioning what was the point of working hard to get into a good school if the reward was working 996 hours (9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days per week) in a tech company? If you were lucky enough to land a job, that is, in an era of high graduate unemployment.
> Though the term is far less commonly used in English, involution comes from a latin term which means "to roll or turn inwards". It was popularised by American cultural anthropologist Clifford Geertz in the 1960s - in relation to his studies of Javanese agriculture - to describe economic or cultural stagnation despite increasing complexity or effort.
> More recently, neijuan has become shorthand in China for the exhausting but also often futile and sometimes self-destructive grind of hyper-competition more broadly.The concept is now also linked to the country’s pivot from property-driven growth to an industrial complex encompassing a third of global manufacturing, which has seen more recources invested without any accompanying increase in returns. It's a race to the bottom.
The same thing will happen in space
It’s a capability, use your imagination.
Cheers, neat idea
[1] https://github.com/anomalyco
https://www.ink-web.dev/
https://docs.rs/webatui/latest/webatui/