# r3bl_analytics_schema

## Why R3BL?

<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/r3bl-org/r3bl-open-core/main/r3bl-term.svg?raw=true" height="256px">

<!-- R3BL TUI library & suite of apps focused on developer productivity -->

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We are working on building command line apps in Rust which have rich text user interfaces (TUI).
We want to lean into the terminal as a place of productivity, and build all kinds of awesome
apps for it.

1. 🔮 Instead of just building one app, we are building a library to enable any kind of rich TUI
   development w/ a twist: taking concepts that work really well for the frontend mobile and web
   development world and re-imagining them for TUI & Rust.

   - Taking inspiration from things like [React](https://react.dev/),
     [SolidJS](https://www.solidjs.com/),
     [Elm](https://guide.elm-lang.org/architecture/),
     [iced-rs](https://docs.rs/iced/latest/iced/), [Jetpack
     Compose](https://developer.android.com/compose),
     [JSX](https://ui.dev/imperative-vs-declarative-programming),
     [CSS](https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS/#css), but making everything async (so they can
     be run in parallel & concurrent via [Tokio](https://crates.io/crates/tokio)).
   - Even the thread running the main event loop doesn't block since it is async.
   - Using proc macros to create DSLs to implement something inspired by
     [CSS](https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS/#css) &
     [JSX](https://ui.dev/imperative-vs-declarative-programming).

2. 🌎 We are building apps to enhance developer productivity & workflows.

   - The idea here is not to rebuild `tmux` in Rust (separate processes mux'd onto a
     single terminal window). Rather it is to build a set of integrated "apps" (or
     "tasks") that run in the same process that renders to one terminal window.
   - Inside of this terminal window, we can implement things like "app" switching,
     routing, tiling layout, stacking layout, etc. so that we can manage a lot of TUI
     apps (which are tightly integrated) that are running in the same process, in the
     same window. So you can imagine that all these "app"s have shared application
     state. Each "app" may also have its own local application state.
   - Here are some examples of the types of "app"s we plan to build (for which this
     infrastructure acts as the open source engine):
     1. Multi user text editors w/ syntax highlighting.
     2. Integrations w/ github issues.
     3. Integrations w/ calendar, email, contacts APIs.

All the crates in the `r3bl-open-core`
[repo](https://github.com/r3bl-org/r3bl-open-core/) provide lots of useful
functionality to help you build TUI (text user interface) apps, along w/ general
niceties & ergonomics that all Rustaceans 🦀 can enjoy 🎉.

## Table of contents

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- [Introduction](#introduction)
- [Changelog](#changelog)
- [Learn how these crates are built, provide feedback](#learn-how-these-crates-are-built-provide-feedback)

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## Introduction

This crate is a shared dependency of a few crates in the R3BL ecosystem. It describes
data structures that are used to represent analytics data. These data structures are
created with anonymity in mind, and purposefully avoid including any personally
identifiable information (PII). Instead of adding privacy after the fact, these data
structures don't really allow for PII to be included in the first place. The intention
and philosophy behind these data structures is to be privacy-first, and provide a way
for R3BL to understand which products need more care and attention first, to be able
to deliver the best user experience to end users. And all the infrastructure supports
opt-out of this anonymized telemetry data collection.

Here are some other crates for which this crate is a dependency (run `rg
"r3bl_analytics_schema" -g "Cargo.toml"` to get a list):
1. [`r3bl-cmdr`](https://crates.io/crates/r3bl_cmdr) crate.
1. The analytics backend for R3BL which is closed source.

## Changelog

Please check out the
[changelog](https://github.com/r3bl-org/r3bl-open-core/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#r3bl_analytics_schema)
to see how the library has evolved over time.

## Learn how these crates are built, provide feedback

To learn how we built this crate, please take a look at the following resources.
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License: Apache-2.0
