Use the bubbletea framework

[ChausseBenjamin]

For starters, great job on this tool! I love the idea of never visiting youtube.com again ;)

I noticed your app has fzf as a dependency. To remove that dependency to the user, would you be interested in migrating the frontend to the bubbletea framework? I think their list component would be a great Go-native substitute for your current fzf implementation. As a bonus, you wouldn't need to hardcode escape sequences for your colors are they are handled by the library.

If this is something that would interest you I might have some spare time in september to work on that and submit a PR. Feel free to say no if this isn't the direction you want to bring your project ;)

[KrishnaSSH]

Hey! Thank you so much for the kind words You’re spot on about fzf. I actually explored Bubble Tea early on, the very first version of this project was written with it. But at the time, I wanted to move fast and get things working end-to-end, so dropping in fzf made the search part quick and easy with built in previews. That said, moving the UI fully to Bubble Tea is definitely on my roadmap. I’d love to remove the fzf dependency and keep everything Go-native and self-contained, and Bubble Tea’s built-in components are a great fit for that. If you have time in September and want to take a shot at this, I’d absolutely welcome a PR. You can share any ideas or a draft whenever you’re ready. I’d be happy to discuss it and figure out the best way forward together. Thanks again for offering to contribute

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On Sun, Jul 20, 2025 at 8:52 PM Benjamin Chausse ***@***.***> wrote: *ChausseBenjamin* created an issue (KrishnaSSH/gophertube#4) <#4> Call with Sami Ghoul-Duclos For starters, great job on this tool! I love the idea of never visiting youtube.com again ;) I noticed your app has fzf as a dependency. To remove that dependency to the user, would you be interested in migrating the frontend to the bubbletea <https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea> framework? I think their list <https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbles?tab=readme-ov-file#list> component would be a great Go-native substitute for your current fzf implementation. As a bonus, you wouldn't need to hardcode escape sequences for your colors are they are handled by the library. If this is something that would interest you I might have some spare time in september to work on that and submit a PR. Feel free to say no if this isn't the direction you want to bring your project ;) — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#4>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/A6A4BAKKYGVLITUOTQQCKOL3JOX4ZAVCNFSM6AAAAACB5767JKVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43ASLTON2WKOZTGI2DMNBVGAYDOMQ> . You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[ChausseBenjamin]

Draft Idea

I have ideas right now so I'm writing them here to help me remember them once
I'll have the time to implement them in septempber (and also get your feedback
on them).

Kind of inspired by the google home page with "Search" and
"I'm Feeling Lucky". A user could go through the options using Tab:

This would allow the user to do everything through a single screen without the
need to navigate throught sub-menus.

As for the progress bar, my idea was to add it to the UI whenever the user
loads more result (and initially) like this:

Don't mind the monochrome aesthetic, I wrote these in a text file for a quick mocup...

Edit:

The ui mockup offers no keys for downloading, perhaps using for downloading would be good. Along with to refresh/ load more results.

[KrishnaSSH]

looks good to me I have no problems with this design (Sorry for the delay was busy with my exams)