[benjaminjackman]

I just want to say thanks, I have been experimenting with using xterm.js to connect to terminal API in jupyter notebooks and it has worked really well, plug and play (even editors like vim were working without any extra effort).

Before that I was experimenting with using it as a custom shell for running commands inside a web application. In that use case it was a bit more challenging because I had never written to an actual tty before (ansi escape codes for coloring log files has been about the limit of my experience). For that use case I just really needed to send and receive text. I ended up using this library [ https://github.com/wavesoft/local-echo ] to smooth that process out until I could learn about how to do things properly.

Are any suggestions on:

1. where to learn about how ttys work to do things the right way, or

2. suggested libraries like local-echo that can wrap over some of the trickier bits of just getting text on the screen?

Thanks again for maintaining such a great & useful library!

[Tyriar]

1. https://invisible-island.net/xterm/ctlseqs/ctlseqs.html is my main reference for anything related to terminals, other than that my knowledge has built up mainly as a result of contributing to xterm.js.

2. The library you mention is the one I'm aware of, I have a WIP for building a basic shell in JS that I will probably open source eventually if I have the time.

[brundolf]

+1

Xterm.js is really impressive in what it can do, but it was pretty tough to get started with as someone who just wanted to pipe shell input/output over HTTP requests to a server. I realize streamlining that usecase is probably out of scope for the Xterm team, but I think there's a space for either some tutorials or a higher-level wrapper library