The OpenTUI engine vendored 10 tree-sitter grammars (.wasm + .scm) under
ui-opentui/parsers/ — ~37k checked-in binary lines, the single biggest
addition in the engine diff. opencode (the production reference) vendors
none: it declares grammars as remote URLs and lets OpenTUI fetch + cache
them. OpenTUI supports this natively via TreeSitterClient's dataPath cache.
Migrate to that model:
- parsers.manifest.json (now under src/boundary/) becomes the URL source of
truth: each grammar is { filetype, aliases, wasm: <release URL>,
highlights: <.scm URL> }. Grammar versions stay pinned (same release tags);
.scm sources follow opencode's per-language choices (parser-repo queries
for python/html where nvim-treesitter's are parser-incompatible).
- parsers.ts: registerVendoredParsers -> registerRemoteParsers. It points the
global tree-sitter client's cache at HERMES_TUI_PARSER_CACHE via setDataPath
BEFORE the client initializes, then addDefaultParsers() with the URL configs.
Registration does zero network; the fetch is lazy on first use of a language
and degrades to plain text (never throws) when GitHub is unreachable.
- hermes_cli/main.py sets HERMES_TUI_PARSER_CACHE to
~/.hermes/cache/opentui-parsers/ (profile-aware via get_hermes_home).
- git rm -r ui-opentui/parsers/ and drop scripts/update-parsers.mjs.
- parsers.test.tsx asserts URL configs are well-formed + cache-dir behavior
instead of vendored-file existence.
Verified end-to-end on Node 26.3: type-check + lint clean, full ui-opentui
suite (821 tests) green, and a built smoke proves first-use fetch -> cache ->
10 real highlights, cache-hit on rerun, and graceful plain-text degrade when
the grammar URLs are unreachable.
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ui-opentui — native OpenTUI engine for Hermes
Solid + @opentui/core over Node FFI. Ink (ui-tui/) is the shipping default;
this is the experimental engine (draft PR #42922).
Node 26 setup (required; will not touch your other projects)
This package needs Node ≥ 26.3 (--experimental-ffi floor). Everything
else on this machine/repo can keep whatever Node it already uses — pin 26 to
this directory only:
# 1. install fnm (skip if you have it; nvm/mise work too — see below)
curl -fsSL https://fnm.vercel.app/install | bash
# add to ~/.zshrc (or bashrc): eval "$(fnm env --use-on-cd --shell zsh)"
# 2. install Node 26 SIDE BY SIDE (does NOT change your default)
fnm install 26
# 3. done — this directory has a .node-version (26.3), so `cd ui-opentui`
# auto-switches to 26 and leaving switches back. Do NOT run `fnm default 26`.
node -v # v26.x here; your old version everywhere else
No shell integration wanted (CI, scripts, one-off): fnm exec --using 26 -- node ...
or invoke the absolute binary (~/.local/share/fnm/node-versions/v26.*/installation/bin/node).
mise users: mise use node@26 in this directory. nvm users: nvm install 26,
plus an .nvmrc shim (echo 26 > .nvmrc) if you rely on auto-switching.
Gotchas
- Native modules are ABI-locked. A
node_modulesinstalled under Node 20/22 will not load under 26 (and vice versa) — runnpm ci(ornpm rebuild) after switching versions. Same applies to the tui-bench repo's node-pty (github.com/NousResearch/tui-bench). - Global npm packages don't follow between versions (per-version prefix); reinstall the few you need, or don't use globals.
- Editor terminals (Zed/VS Code) need the
fnm envline in your shell rc; the.node-versionauto-switch then covers any shell that cd's here. - Never run this package with bun — the FFI seam and the Solid/JSX build are Node-path only here.
package.jsondeclaresengines.node >= 26.3, so a wrong-Nodenpm ciwarns immediately.
Build & run
node scripts/build.mjs
HERMES_TUI_MOUSE=1 node --experimental-ffi --no-warnings dist/main.js
Gates: npm run check (typecheck + lint + tests). Memory/perf benchmarks live
in the tui-bench repo (github.com/NousResearch/tui-bench; see its README). Transcript windowing (memory architecture) is
documented in ../docs/plans/opentui-transcript-windowing.md.