How to create interactive terminal like website with JavaScript?

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  • jquery.terminal

    jQuery Terminal Emulator - JavaScript library for creating web-based terminals with custom commands

    Creating such a styled console website or fake terminal website is easier if you have a library that will give you the look and feel of the real terminal emulator, with a nice API to create commands, so you don’t need to create it from scratch. We will use the JavaScript Terminal library: jQuery Terminal, which gives a simple, but powerful API to create interactive terminals on any website. The library doesn’t use any HTML5 features and uses ES5 so it will work on any Browser even in IE11.

  • json-rpc-list

    List of JSON-RPC implementations

    With jQuery Terminal, you can also create a backend quickly if you create a JSON-RPC service. Here is the list (not complete) of JSON-RPC implementations.

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  • gaiman

    Gaiman: Text based game engine and programming language

    When I was working on one paid git I’ve come up with a kind of engine that was driven by a JSON file. It was a kind of interactive game or very poor text adventure game. I’ve asked the person for whom I created this project if I can publish the game so others can use it. It was very cool. Later I came up with something even better. My own programming language that compiles into JavaScript. The project is in Beta version and I still need to work on the playground and documentation. You can check it out. Here is Gaiman’s GitHub repo. If you want to create a complex project with user interaction, it may be easier to do this with Gaiman, since it simplifies things. The same code in JavaScript will be much more complex.

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