Hyper: Terminal as a library?

[atrauzzi]

Does hyper by any chance break down such that I could integrate it as a viewer for terminal output in my own electron applications?

I'd like to offer the nicest output possible and obviously would like to avoid getting mired in terminal specifics. Especially when it comes to cross platform.

[albinekb]

In the future maybe, but in short term, no. There's too much to fix 😄 PR(s) welcome 👍
see https://github.com/zeit/hyper/issues/254 for other use case

[albinekb]

But if you just want a simple viewer, use xterm.js, same that's used in VS Code (and that's what we use in hyper 2.x)

[atrauzzi]

Awesome, I'll give that a shot! Definitely takes a lot off my plate and helps me avoid reinventing the wheel.

Would love some day to be able to integrate hyper, but this will do in the meantime.

[albinekb]

We're focusing on fixing bugs and releasing 2.0, after that we can tackle breaking it up into a frontend-only version of hyper that could be used in Atom, web pages (over sockets) etc. and an electron version of hyper that uses that lib.

But as I see it now it's pretty far off @atrauzzi. Too many other important things (bugs and compatibility) that blocks.

[atrauzzi]

No problem at all, my use case is so simple, it won't hinder me. If/when that day comes, I'll be there ;)