XEXelom·Dec 13, 2016Submission
Hyper – A Terminal built on web technologies
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hyper
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hyper
A terminal built on web technologies
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26Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
44.8KGitHub stars
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A terminal built on web technologies
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- xtermjs/xterm.js · linked in 3 of the same discussions
Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.
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HN mentions by year26 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2016-07-15 19:54:35 UTC to 2025-03-10 10:30:58 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 9 | 3 | 6 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
9 sourcesSomeone beat me to it, and it was promptly closed: https://github.com/zeit/hyper/issues/1121
EDIT: I wrongly stated that the issue was closed. Please see further downthread. I apologize.
In Hyper 1.0.0OK, I just installed it on Windows. Right out of the box, it does not recognize ctrl+c. What am I supposed to think about the quality of this?
(I literally have not tried a single other thing. I made a typo on the very first command I wanted to try. I tried ctrl+c to start over, and it did not recognize it.)
EDIT
I gave it another chance. If I start a bash shell, it recognizes ctrl+c, but it does not recognize the up arrow key. Not impressed. Don't get the hype. Sorry.
EDIT2
Is this being brigaded? It's the first result on HN without clear reason, and I'm being downvoted immediately for posting this feedback. What's going on?
https://github.com/zeit/hyper/issues/1127
https://github.com/zeit/hyper/issues/1126
https://github.com/zeit/hyper/issues/1121
https://github.com/zeit/hyper/issues/1129
EDIT3
OK, seriously, what's with the downvote b
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rigade? I'm at -3 now.
Check this out: https://github.com/zeit/hyper
In Ask HN: What good open source projects written in React that I can learn from?I wonder how long it will take before something like this gets implemented as a `Hyperterm` [0] plugin.
I think it could be quite useful to combine `npm` packages with shell commands and `map`, `filter`, etc, in your terminal.
The only thing I am unsure about are the underlying representations of the shell output. Arrays of arrays are not very semantic, so the code that parses them would not be very pleasant.
Given a shape like:
[
[ 'PID', 'TTY', 'TIME', 'CMD' ],
[ '13750', 'pts/14', '00:00:00', 'bash' ],
[ '25193', 'pts/14', '00:00:03', 'node' ],
[ '25283', 'pts/14', '00:00:00', 'sh' ],
[ '25284', 'pts/14', '00:00:00', 'ps' ]
]
I would probably like to be able to apply some kind of transforms by default so that I can work with:
[
{ pid: '13750', tty: 'pts/14', time: '00:00:00', cmd: 'bash' },
{ pid: '
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25193', tty: 'pts/14', time: '00:00:03', cmd: 'node' },
{ pid: '25283', tty: 'pts/14', time: '00:00:00', cmd: 'sh' },
{ pid: '25284', tty: 'pts/14', time: '00:00:00', cmd: 'ps' }
]
Though if this was the case you would want some way of applying the right transform depending on the arguments passed into the command.
I guess the bad thing is that there is currently presumably no way of using other shell features like pipes.
Also, if you're going to start outputting different shaped data, then I think you should consider hooking this all up to `flowtype` [1] and creating type signatures to provide DX [2]
[0] https://github.com/zeit/hyperterm
[1] https://flowtype.org/
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12129026
It assumes I have npm installed. Probably shouldn't:
https://github.com/zeit/hyperterm/issues/134
In HyperTerm – JS/HTML/CSS TerminalFollow the instructions from the GitHub page [1] the ones under the "Contribute" title, that will be enough for you. If you don't know how to work with a Node.JS project then wait for their official Windows release.
[1] https://github.com/zeit/hyperterm#contribute
In HyperTerm – JS/HTML/CSS Terminal