Bringing the power of the Command-line into the browser with the help of TTY emulators written in Go and Javascript (running on NodeJS).

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CLI in the Browser
bringing the power of the command-line into the browser

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Tradition Terminals / Consoles

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About Web-Terminal
- Web-Terminal is a terminal server that provides remote CLI via standard web
browser and HTTP protocol
- Platform independent
- Written in JS, runs on NodeJS
- Easy to install
- Open Source

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Web-Terminal in action
Shown in your command-line console

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Web-Terminal in action
Shown in your browser

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Integrating Web-Terminal with web apps
Calling Web-Terminal via plain old javascript

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Integrating Web-Terminal with web apps
Calling Web-Terminal via plain old javascript

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Web-Terminal inception
Calling Web-Terminal via a Web-terminal session in a Web-terminal browser

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Pros
- platform independent
- can be run via browser
- can be accessed from remote devices
- easy to install
- can be integrated in other web-applications
- command-line history works

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Cons
- only good for simple command response use-cases
- shell-ons are not supported (i.e zsh, pretzo)
- code-complete is not available
- colouring/formatting is limited
- embedded authentication and encryption mechanisms are not supported

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Summary
- Try it
- Have fun
- Support MIT License, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License
- Its open-source, so enhance it at https://github.com/rabchev/web-terminal

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About XTerm
- Find out all that you want to via https://github.com/sourcelair/xterm.js
- Runs on NodeJS
- Look and feel like a shell in the browser

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XTerm in action
Shown in your command-line console

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Pros
- platform independent
- can be run via browser
- can be accessed from remote devices
- easy to install
- can be integrated in other web-applications
- command-line history works
- auto-complete works
- almost all CLI features work

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Cons
- only good for simple command response use-cases
- colouring/formatting is limited for MacOSX or another similar platform
- embedded authentication and encryption mechanisms are not supported

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- Find out all that you want to via https://cloud.google.com/shell/docs/quickstart
- Runs in Google’s infra
- not available to run as a standalone app
- its free to open an account on Google Cloud Platform
- Need to start a project to see the `shell in the browser` in action
- Looks very much like the real shell
About Google Cloud Shell

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Google Cloud Shell in action

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Summary
- Try them out, have fun
- Xterm.js: https://github.com/sourcelair/xterm.js
- Google Cloud Shell: https://cloud.google.com/shell/docs/quickstart
- Some others out there
- Gotty: https://github.com/yudai/gotty
- Wetty: https://github.com/krishnasrinivas/wetty