eosterberg/terminaljs

terminal.js is a dead simple JavaScript library for emulating a shell environment.

terminaljs

terminal.js is a dead simple JavaScript library for emulating a shell environment.

Demo

Install

npm i terminal-js-emulator

Usage example

import Terminal from 'terminal-js-emulator';

let t1 = new Terminal('terminal-1');
t1.setHeight("400px");
t1.print('This is sample with some additional logic:')
    .print(`Are you ready? Let's go!`)
    .input(`Hi! What's your name?`, function (name) {
        t1.print(`Welcome, ${name}!`)
            .sleep(1000, function () {
                t1.print(`We have more questions to follow.`)
                    .input(`Enter your email, please:`, function (email) {
                        t1.password('Enter password:', function (password) {
                            t1.print(`Your name is "${name}" and your email is "${email}" and you have entered password "${password}".`)
                                .confirm(`Is it true?`, function (didConfirm) {
                                    t1.print(didConfirm ? 'You confirmed!' : 'You declined!')
                                });
                        });
                        
                    });
        });
});

Properties and methods

.print(message)

Prints the message on a new line.

.input(message, callback)

Prints the message, and shows a prompt where the user can write. When the user presses enter, the callback function fires. The callback takes one argument, which is the user input.

.password(message, callback)

The same as input but the input of the user will be hidden just like an old-fashioned terminal.

.confirm(message, callback)

Displays a confirm message, with a " (y/n)" automatically appended at the end. The callback receives the yes/no value as a boolean.

.clear()

Clears the screen.

.setPrompt()

You can customize your PS1 for the prompt. It can be set and override at any point of time.

.sleep(milliseconds, callback)

Works exactly like the JavaScript "setTimeout" function. Waits for the number of milliseconds given, then executes the callback.

.beep()

DISMISSED from v. 3.0. Plays a retro digital tone.

.setTextSize()
.setTextColor()
.setBackgroundColor()
.setWidth()
.setHeight()

All the ".set" methods accepts any CSS-compliant value.

.blinkingCursor(boolean)

Set to true by default.

.html

This is the top DOM element of the terminal instance. If you want to modify styling via CSS, all instances belong to a .Terminal class.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2014 Erik Österberg

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

terminaljs's Issues

Demo website no loner exists

http://www.erikosterberg.com/terminaljs/ no longer seems to exist anymore. Nothing else to really say here.

Please tag current project status before next change

Please tag the current version before you edit files or merge pull request.

Reason: References from forks to original sources will loose facts, if the sources change.

BTW. Perhaps you like have a look at my fork, which includes further features. I have omitted to make a pull request, because the changes may be too sweeping, are they?

Thanks in advance for anybody who will take care of this project.

Using 'InnerHTML'

Hi Eric,
just want to use the terminalJS in a container like
//document.getElementById("consoleBox").innerHTML = t1.html;
but doesnt work out. Everything other is ok, if I use your addChild construct.
Any suggestions to put it in some container?

Thanks for helping.

With best regards

Gerhard
(Javascript Newbee)

Leading spaces are ignored and multiple spaces are collapsed.

By default, it seems that leading spaces are ignored. Each of these lines of code produces the same output:

myTerminal.print('X');
myTerminal.print(' X');
myTerminal.print('  X');

Also, multiple spaces are collapsed into a single space. These produce the same output:

myTerminal.print('A Z');
myTerminal.print('A  Z');
myTerminal.print('A   Z');

I found this on Firefox 68.0.1 on Windows 10.

Support for ANSI special chars

Standard terminal windows support special ANSI chars for styling.
For example try running this on any terminal window:

printf '%b\n' 'It is \033[31mnot\033[39m intelligent to use \033[32mhardcoded ANSI\033[39m codes!'

Can we add support for this?

How can I set CSS for terminajs? e.g. white-space: pre-line;

I have worked it out, please ignore this request.

Play beep from on-board audio files?

If you want play the beep from audio files residing directly beside the script, here is how to do it: https://github.com/normai/terminaljs/blob/375a544f27f86656e80bb34175286d9d981c54ae/terminal.js

The point is to retrieve the URL of the folder where the script resides. This is done in a function getThisScriptFolder on the very bottom of the script.

This function needs an ID attribute beeing added to the script tag in the HTML page. There are also solutions without that inconvenience, but I find the ID-attribute based solution most foolproof.

Kind regards,
Norbert

Terminal doesn't automatically scroll when print() adds text past the bottom of the terminal.

When I have the terminal set to a fixed size, there are only so many lines I can print before the text goes past the bottom edge and I can no longer see any new text added by print().