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

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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