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tty.js

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chjj / tty.js

tty.js

A terminal for your browser, using node/express/socket.io

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What it is

A terminal for your browser, using node/express/socket.io

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chjj/term.js · linked in 2 of the same discussions

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Observed mentions: 2012-02-07 04:24:01 UTC to 2016-08-15 21:31:04 UTC.

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Submissions	Comments
2012	2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1	0
2013	2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	3	0	3
2014	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	3	0	3
2015	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	0	2
2016	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1

What Hacker News says

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smnscu·Aug 15, 2016

I always wondered, can blessed/react-blessed be used in the browser? I've been looking for a good JS terminal emulator for a while (not something like [1] that connects to an actual shell session). Actually, this thing featured on HN recently via Nodal looks promising [2]. 1: https://github.com/chjj/tty.js/ 2: https://www.npmjs.com/package/cmnd

In Introducing Webpack Dashboard

SloopJon·Feb 19, 2015

I've been meaning to try something like this at work for training and documentation. Haven't yet, but here's the previous discussion of showterm: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6190600 A couple of interesting repositories mentioned in that discussion: https://github.com/chjj/term.js https://github.com/chjj/tty.js There was also mention of ascii.io (currently unreachable) and shelr.tv (domain squatter).

In Asciinema – Record and share your terminal sessions

olalonde·Feb 15, 2015

I think you would need to feed what you are getting to a Javascript terminal emulator. (e.g. https://github.com/chjj/tty.js/)

In Show HN: A Unixy approach to WebSockets

malandrew·Nov 13, 2014

Related: https://github.com/chjj/tty.js/

In Show HN: Got Bored This Afternoon – Made a Terminal Emulator in HTML5

malandrew·Nov 7, 2014

Related for the *nix folks: tty.js https://github.com/chjj/tty.js

In Show HN: Interactive DOS prompt in an HTML5 canvas

chjj·Feb 28, 2014

tty.js[1] works on windows (the backend is linked to the winpty library). I'd normally feel like I'm tooting my own horn by inserting this here, but it looks like the clientside part of Butterfly is a fork of my term.js[2]. I'm not sure if python's implementation of pty's handles some kind of workaround specifically for windows. [1] https://github.com/chjj/tty.js [2] https://github.com/chjj/term.js

In Butterfly: Your everyday terminal in your web browser

paws·Dec 20, 2013

Happy to see the terminal-in-browser space get more attention! Check out https://github.com/chjj/tty.js

In Onion Terminal is a Web Browser Unix Terminal

htilford·Apr 3, 2013

I've been using https://github.com/chjj/tty.js/ to vim on my pixel, with tty.js running on my linode.

In An Engineer's take on Chrome OS

chjj·Mar 19, 2013

Definitely the first thing that came to my mind. I don't like that he is not respecting the original author's license. We're all used to opensource and freedom to redistribute here, but when someone licenses something a different way, we should still respect it. Bellard is a reasonable man. I asked him for permission to release my web terminal (https://github.com/chjj/tty.js), (which was originally based on his jslinux terminal), under the MIT license, and he did give me permission. All it takes is the courtesy to ask and to state your intentions with it. Hopefully thats what the poster did here, but it does seem unclear.

In JSLinux rewritten to be human readable, deobfuscated and annotated

chjj·Feb 7, 2012Submission

Tty.js - a terminal for your browser using socket.io

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