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Ask HN: Is there an automatic GUI builder from structured data?

I'm looking for a tool or method to quickly bring-up a GUI based on incoming stream of structured data (JSON, MessagePack, etc).

Specifically, I'm looking for the `visualize` part of this pipeline:

`my | custom | data | feed | visualize`

Is there a method or a tool that does so? Such tool shall limit freedom and granularity of widget placement and instead, substitute it with ease-of-use and script-ability.

For plotting graphs, there is feedgnuplot [1]. Zenity [2] and yad [3] are kinda like this but for form generation.

[1]: https://github.com/dkogan/feedgnuplot

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenity

[3]: https://github.com/v1cont/yad

5 points ducktective 5 years ago 6 comments

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