From 53df36dd006696165343b58df434fec60988f017 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Iaroslav Zeigerman <zeigerman.ia@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2025 08:43:29 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Chore: Print a deprecation warning in the sqlmesh ui command

---
 docs/guides/ui.md     |  5 +++++
 docs/quickstart/ui.md |  4 ++++
 sqlmesh/cli/main.py   | 23 +++++++++++++++--------
 3 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/guides/ui.md b/docs/guides/ui.md
index 1da48e50b3..29bb204988 100644
--- a/docs/guides/ui.md
+++ b/docs/guides/ui.md
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 # Browser UI guide
 
+!!! warning
+
+    Browser UI is deprecated. Please use the [VSCode extension](vscode.md) instead.
+
+
 SQLMesh's free, open-source browser user interface (UI) makes it easy to understand, explore, and modify your SQLMesh project.
 
 This page describes the UI's components and how they work.
diff --git a/docs/quickstart/ui.md b/docs/quickstart/ui.md
index 06a9d8c448..2891536876 100644
--- a/docs/quickstart/ui.md
+++ b/docs/quickstart/ui.md
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 # Browser UI
 
+!!! warning
+
+    Browser UI is deprecated. Please use the [VSCode extension](../guides/vscode.md) instead.
+
 In this quickstart, you'll use the SQLMesh browser user interface to get up and running with SQLMesh's scaffold generator. This example project will run locally on your computer using [DuckDB](https://duckdb.org/) as an embedded SQL engine.
 
 ??? info "Learn more about the quickstart project structure"
diff --git a/sqlmesh/cli/main.py b/sqlmesh/cli/main.py
index e4b06552ad..8982efc9f8 100644
--- a/sqlmesh/cli/main.py
+++ b/sqlmesh/cli/main.py
@@ -107,6 +107,14 @@ def cli(
     if "--help" in sys.argv:
         return
 
+    configure_logging(
+        debug,
+        log_to_stdout,
+        log_file_dir=log_file_dir,
+        ignore_warnings=ignore_warnings,
+    )
+    configure_console(ignore_warnings=ignore_warnings)
+
     load = True
 
     if len(paths) == 1:
@@ -117,14 +125,6 @@ def cli(
         if ctx.invoked_subcommand in SKIP_LOAD_COMMANDS:
             load = False
 
-    configure_logging(
-        debug,
-        log_to_stdout,
-        log_file_dir=log_file_dir,
-        ignore_warnings=ignore_warnings,
-    )
-    configure_console(ignore_warnings=ignore_warnings)
-
     configs = load_configs(config, Context.CONFIG_TYPE, paths, dotenv_path=dotenv)
     log_limit = list(configs.values())[0].log_limit
 
@@ -884,6 +884,13 @@ def info(obj: Context, skip_connection: bool, verbose: int) -> None:
 @cli_analytics
 def ui(ctx: click.Context, host: str, port: int, mode: str) -> None:
     """Start a browser-based SQLMesh UI."""
+    from sqlmesh.core.console import get_console
+
+    get_console().log_warning(
+        "The UI is deprecated and will be removed in a future version. Please use the SQLMesh VSCode extension instead. "
+        "Learn more at https://sqlmesh.readthedocs.io/en/stable/guides/vscode/"
+    )
+
     try:
         import uvicorn
     except ModuleNotFoundError as e: