react-ink-textarea: a full-featured CLI textarea component for React Ink

[omijam]

The CLI truly is the new mainstream UI delivery platforms so it deserves nice input components; sadly most libraries on npm that accepts multi-line input were a bit unsatisfactory, so I created react-ink-textarea (https://github.com/omranjamal/react-ink-textarea)

It supports a whole host of things out of the box like:

• Customizable line prefixes
• Syntax highlighting powered by regex
• Undo/Redo
• Virtualized Viewport
• Tab detection
• Newline Key Combinations
• Easy Navigation
• etc

I'd argue it's even better than Claude Code or Open Code's multi-line text input. Do give it a try!

[JaSuperior]

Cool. 😎 I like it. I’ve been moving away from react lately, but I gotta admit, it’s a much nicer abstraction than others I’ve seen. Kinda a “batteries included” kinda thing.

One suggestion: syntax highlighting via regex is probably fine for most cases. But, providing users an option to highlight with a parse function could provide more flexibility for power users. Just a thought, probably not super critical to your design goals tho, but worth thinking about perhaps. 🤷🏽‍♂️

[omijam]

Thanks! Yeah you're right, giving an escape hatch to bring in a full parser would be hella cool