---
title: "Screen is a terminal renderer written in pure PHP"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/screen-is-a-terminal-renderer-written-in-pure-php-15pbyxgfx
source_url: https://laravel-news.com/solo-screen
type: article
source: "Laravel News"
published: 2025-04-07T12:46:36.850Z
updated: 2025-04-07T12:52:21.484Z
tags: ["open-source", "php", "laravel"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 27
comments: 2
language: en
---

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# Screen is a terminal renderer written in pure PHP

**[Laravel News](https://daily.dev/sources/ln)** · 2 min read · 27 upvotes · 2 comments

## Summary

Screen is a terminal renderer created by Aaron Francis, written in pure PHP, and powers Solo for Laravel. It helps build rich text-based user interfaces in PHP applications without being a standalone terminal application. Key features include full ANSI support, Unicode/multibyte handling, buffer management, correct character width handling, and support for vertical scrolling.

## Full article

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@keyruu** · 3 upvotes

> I gotta say the name is very poorly chosen with `screen` being one of the core utilities in every Linux OS.

**@mangeurdekellogs** · 0 upvotes

> You could use constants for colors instead of writting raw colors

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