Show HN: Building terminal dashboards using ASCII/ANSI art and JavaScript

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Post by yaronn01 » Wed, Jan 14, 2015, 6:35 PM UTC

Show HN: Building terminal dashboards using ASCII/ANSI art and JavaScript
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Post by ely-s » Wed, Jan 14, 2015, 11:46 PM UTC

This is so cool

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Post by simlevesque » Wed, Jan 14, 2015, 11:51 PM UTC

I'm going to use it in my current project ! Great work

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Post by andrewchambers » Wed, Jan 14, 2015, 11:52 PM UTC

So bringing some of the web designers into the terminal isn't such a bad thing after all, they have great taste.

I'm partially sad its written in nodejs, but I can't really think of what else it should have been written in.

I think clojurescript bindings would be awesome. The dashboard can be rendered from an immutable app state om style.

dnolen, I'm looking at you :).

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Post by FleegmanGuy » Wed, Jan 14, 2015, 11:58 PM UTC

It's not 100% clear unless you can read the code.

Where is the data coming from? Seems like a lot of animated data with limited data points specified.

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Post by Gyonka » Thu, Jan 15, 2015, 12:02 AM UTC

This is really cool! Seems like it would be easy to extend and link to simple projects, that way I can run this on my second monitor and feel like a real hacker ;)

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Post by hbz » Thu, Jan 15, 2015, 12:02 AM UTC

FleegmanGuy wrote: post #5

It's not 100% clear unless you can read the code. Where is the data coming from? Seems like a lot of animated data with limited data points specified.

Seems to be randomly generated- https://github.com/yaronn/blessed-contrib/blob/master/exampl...

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Post by warble » Thu, Jan 15, 2015, 12:04 AM UTC

This is pretty neat.

I think it's telling that after 50 years, and all the work on GUI's, this is still a good idea.

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Post by yaronn01 » Thu, Jan 15, 2015, 12:09 AM UTC

FleegmanGuy wrote: post #5

It's not 100% clear unless you can read the code. Where is the data coming from? Seems like a lot of animated data with limited data points specified.

I'm the Author. Yes, data in this sample is random or hard coded.

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Post by yaronn01 » Thu, Jan 15, 2015, 12:11 AM UTC

Hi everyone, I am the author. Let me know if you have any questions or ideas.