local-echo VS xtermjs.org

I just want to say thanks, I have been experimenting with using xterm.js to connect to terminal API in jupyter notebooks and it was 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 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!

You can check out the source for the demo at https://github.com/xtermjs/xtermjs.org/blob/master/js/demo.j..., I've actually started hacking up a more general mechanism for doing this since I've done it a few times but it's not OSS yet.

If you don't need to rely on ccrypt and just want to emulate teh experience of using it, you could have an on rails experience by forking the demo file and adapting the commands part.