Rust / Node.js / TypeScript / TSX
Slate gives terminal interfaces a real runtime: layout, input, focus, media and cleanup with contracts you can read before the process owns the screen.
No React requiredNative input is optionalApache-2.0
$ slate.session--explicit
tree resolved / IDs stable
frame committed / output deduped
cleanup armed / Ctrl+C reserved
const app = render(view, { viewport: { width: 80, height: 24 } });
process.stdout.write(app.renderAnsi());
app.close();const session = createTerminalSession();
const terminal = createTerminalController(app, session.input, output);
terminal.start();
terminal.close();01 / Choose the boundary
For snapshots, generated output, tests and tools that should render ANSI and exit without raw mode or native input.
import { Container, Text, render } from "@slate-terminal/react";
const app = render(Container({
id: "app",
children: Text({ id: "hello", text: "Hello, Slate" })
}));
process.stdout.write(app.renderAnsi());
app.close();For keyboard, mouse, paste, resize and focus. The session opens modes; the controller polls, presents and closes them.
const session = createTerminalSession();
const terminal = createTerminalController(
app, session.input, createSlateOutput(process.stdout)
);
terminal.start();
// Ctrl+C or your action can close it.
terminal.close();02 / The system
The expressive layer borrows the useful part of M3 — semantic color, contrasting shapes and stateful motion — then maps it honestly onto terminal cells, ANSI color and real input.
03 / Built for agents
Slate tells an agent which API owns input, which one only renders, when native is required and what cleanup means. Less archaeology. Fewer defensive typeof branches.
The landing page tells you what Slate owns. The docs show how to use it without guessing.