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Show HN: Gridland: make terminal apps that also run in the browser

105 points by rothific

by kamens

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by curious1008

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This is really cool — the "try before install" problem is real for terminal apps.
I built a terminal collaboration tool and one of the hardest parts of getting my friends to try it is that they have to install a binary and set up tmux before they can even see what it looks like. A browser preview would completely change that.
Do you have plans for WebSocket support in the browser runtime? Would be interesting to see if real-time features (like live chat or presence indicators) could work in the browser version too.

by oDot

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Very nice
Could I use OpenTUI Core with this?
I'd like to replace the hero at https://blisswriter.app with the actual app

by theturtletalks

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by rablackburn

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> Gridland is the successor to Ink Web (ink-web.dev) which is the same concept, but using Ink + xterm.js. After building Ink Web, we continued experimenting and found that using OpenTUI and a canvas renderer performed better with less flickering and nearly instant load times.
Ah, I was wondering how this was different to xterm.js embedded in a page. It's just the performance angle? I've been teaching the kids programming from the terminal and I've been planning to make the jump from the terminal to a terminal in the browser as we hit graphical limitations (and as they want to be able to share their games). I'll take it for a spin.
(and if nothing else, I'm going to steal that ripple effect for them ;) )*
* obligatory https://xkcd.com/541/

by rsafaya

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