Developer Guide

The Developer Guide provides an in-depth reference for building applications with @sullux/tui.

Table of Contents

1. Core Concepts — Intrinsic vs. parent-dependent layout properties.
2. The Tui Application Engine — Turnkey startup engine, lifecycle hooks, and virtual modules.
3. Context & JS Bindings — The @ interception protocol and the ctx context API.
4. Focus & Navigation — Pre-order DFS focus ordering, recursive enabling/disabling, and focus state indicators.
5. Keyboard Engine — Key translation, declarative KeyHandler routing, sequence operators, and suffix trimming.
6. Data Types — Type normalizer factories (Measure, Size, Margin, Point, Bounds, Orientation, Color, Alignment).
7. Markup Reference — Scoped template/class lookups (:templates, :classes), Method 2 imports, array splatting, and function invocation ($ sigil).