SMRTR ProgrammingMay 4, 2026Hacker News

Full-featured CLI textarea component for React Ink

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react-ink-textarea is a full-featured multiline textarea component for Ink, the React-based CLI framework. It brings terminal-native text editing with blinking cursor, undo history, syntax highlighting via regex labels, viewport virtualization, and focus-chaining callbacks. Supports controlled, uncontrolled, and imperative ref modes, making it practical for building complex CLI forms, code editors, or slash-command pickers.

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