Pixel: a library bringing 120 FPS graphical UIs with Chromium WebView to the terminal
aidenybai · x · 2026-10-20
Rob Knight released Pixel, a library for building GUIs in the terminal: 120 FPS pixel-perfect graphics, embeddable inside existing TUIs, a built-in Chromium WebView component, and a TypeScript React API.
- Real projects already built on it: terminal-browser (a browser in your terminal, 4k stars) and terminal-code (VS Code inside the terminal, 2.2k stars)
- Works with Ghostty, iTerm2, WezTerm, Warp, VS Code, Cursor and more
- macOS (Apple Silicon/Intel) and Linux supported; Windows via WSL, native support in progress
- Scaffold with npm create @zenbu-labs/pixel@latest; ships agent-friendly dev tools
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