wetty VS xterm.js

WeTTY

I use wetty for a terminal in a browser. https://github.com/butlerx/wetty

You’re already running docker. Install Wetty. Works great. Make sure you have strong strong Auth though.

Can RGNets look into integrating Wetty, terminal over https (https://github.com/butlerx/wetty) where we can ssh to devices it manages from the fleet or the rXg itself without giving direct shell access to users.

ttyd is a nice little web terminal: https://github.com/tsl0922/ttyd Just small, fast, low fuss C-based executable.

wetty is another good option if you want to run a nodejs app: https://github.com/butlerx/wetty

Both use xterm.js for the client terminal, which is these days the only game in town for a web terminal (it's what VS code and many other electron apps use too). It's quite good.

Do be aware though that running a web-accessible terminal is a huge security headache. You're opening up a websocket to effectively allow commands and code to run on your server. Pay attention to security and authentication options any web terminal gives you, and use them. Most are not very secure out of the box or just following their readme examples.

Do you mean something like Wetty?

Hello, does anyone know of an open source project/web app/library, written in Haskell, that makes terminal interface accessible via browser? An example of what I'd like to achieve: Start R repl process withing a docker container on the backend (e.g. `docker run -it --rm rocker/r-base`) and allow user to interact with it using terminal-like interface from their browser (with stuff like TAB completion working etc.) It seems that xterm.js is a popular choice to implement the client side of such a thing, but I'm looking for some inspiration of how a backend of such an application could be implemented in Haskell. Examples in other languages that do similar thing to what I'd like: Go: https://github.com/yudai/gotty Typescript: https://github.com/butlerx/wetty

Here is a screenshot: https://github.com/xtermjs/xterm.js/pull/4519#issue-17129655...

I'm on the VS Code team and maintain xterm.js which is what Hyper's frontend is based on. There are actually multiple developments happening in this area.

First, there's a contribution from the author of DomTerm which adds grapheme cluster support to xterm.js, which will correctly merge and size things like emoji that are called out in the post. This is currently based on Unicode 15. See https://github.com/xtermjs/xterm.js/pull/4519

Second, while Windows Terminal does seem to work with emoji sometimes, it doesn't all the time. I'm not 100% sure, but I think it may only work on Windows ptys, not in WSL for example. Last time I spoke with the team they said they're working on a rewrite which could lead to proper emoji support.

Ooh, I lack the time to play with this, but I think someone could compile the lib to WebAssembly and tie it in to https://xtermjs.org/

Then you could have a web page with static DOM elements that do this effect!

xterm is a JavaScript library that provides a web-based terminal emulator with ANSI escape sequences, Unicode characters, and other features. It is easy to use and customize, making it a popular choice for adding a terminal interface to web applications.

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The simpler path would be starting the WASM port using Emacs character mode running alongside an in-browser terminal emulator such as XTerm.js.