Storm

Storm redefines terminal user interfaces by treating the terminal as a dynamic display server, optimizing rendering through cell-level diffing. Key features include: • Cell-level diff rendering for high performance • Typed-array buffers to reduce garbage collection • Optional WASM acceleration for faster processing • Dual rendering architecture for declarative setup and imperative animation • Extensive component library with 98 React components and numerous hooks This framework is engineered differently, focusing on speed and flexibility. It renders only changed characters, ensuring that 97% of the screen remains untouched during typical frames, leading to sub-millisecond frame times for animations and live data. With its dual-speed architecture, developers can structure UIs using React components while achieving 60fps animations through imperative rendering, offering clarity and speed without compromise. Storm also provides advanced capabilities like serving terminal UIs over SSH with built-in authentication and session management. Each connection enjoys an isolated React tree, complete with full keyboard, mouse, and resize support. Developers benefit from Time-Travel DevTools to record and scrub render history, inspect component trees, and audit performance. The comprehensive plugin ecosystem, buffer-level backgrounds, and live CSS theme hot-reloads further enhance its utility for building robust and visually rich terminal applications.