bradparks / terminal

Simple web-based terminal front-end using node.js and socket.io

Terminal

Simple web-based terminal front-end using node.js and socket.io for a school assignment.

Requirements

• git
• node.js
• socket.io
• websockets-enabled browser (Chrome, Chromium, maybe Firefox 4 or IE9)

This has only been tested on Ubuntu+Chromium and OSX+Chrome. It may work under other operating systems (Windows, etc.) or in other browsers (Firefox, Safari, etc.) It definitely will not work in IE6 - IE8 (it may work in IE9).

Installation

install git

1. sudo apt-get -y install git-core gitosis

install node.js

1. git clone git://github.com/joyent/node.git
2. cd node # or whatever the folder is called that was downloaded
3. ./configure
4. make
5. make install

install npm (instructions on github)

1. curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh

install socket.io

1. npm install socket.io

run

1. node lib/server.js # from within terminal folder