Show HN: Cast.sh An adorable instance of your terminal in the browser
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#2Suggestion: Add an example video so we can see what this actually does.
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#3What do you mean by adorable?
Re: Show HN: Cast.sh An adorable instance of your terminal in the browser
#4> https://unpkg.com/xterm@3.6.0/dist/xterm.css" />
Just a heads up, xtermjs has now updated to version 4[1]. You might want to consider for an upgrade.
Re: Show HN: Cast.sh An adorable instance of your terminal in the browser
#5What do you mean by adorable?
Calling it adorable without a front and center screenshot is an odd choice.
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#6What do you mean by adorable?
My interpretation was that it was simple, code is easy to read and it does one simple thing.
This launches a new instance of a command of your choosing for every new connection. That does not really seem like casting to me more like a remote shell, but it is adorable in some ways.
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#7I'm sure it is an interesting engineering exercise, but I struggle to think of a situation where I would fire a browser to use the terminal instead of just opening a terminal.
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#8I'm sure it is an interesting engineering exercise, but I struggle to think of a situation where I would fire a browser to use the terminal instead of just opening a terminal.
The name might be a hint as to the utility. If you wanted to display your terminal on your massive television using, say, Chromecast, you wouldn't have the option, but you can "cast" a browser window.
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#9I'm sure it is an interesting engineering exercise, but I struggle to think of a situation where I would fire a browser to use the terminal instead of just opening a terminal.
I guess you could run the program in one of your private servers then do a reverse proxy to that from a public server. Voila: Easy terminal access to your private servers from everywhere!
Not a good idea from a security standpoint though...
Re: Show HN: Cast.sh An adorable instance of your terminal in the browser
#10Suggestion: Add an example video so we can see what this actually does.
It is very simple: When you run it it will create a web server (listening on port 5000) by default; when you visit that server with your browser you'll get a terminal to your system (the same terminal / user that was used to originally run the server).