caoyu0 / janeway

A curses-based console for node.js

Janeway

A curses/blessed-based console, inspired by the developer tools in Webkit/Blink.

Install

Install it for use in your own application:

npm install janeway

Or use it globally:

npm install -g janeway

Features

• Interactive command line, that always has focus
• Autocomplete
• Output is clickable. Variables can be inspected, just like in the browser

Todo

• Use editor-widget for CLI: https://github.com/slap-editor/editor-widget
• Improve command-line eval/vm situation
• Improve colouring
• Improve multiline support
• Filename & line information per log line
• Add Janeway quotes
• ...

As you can see, there's a lot that still needs to be done.

Use it globally

Start your applications like so:

janeway my_js_file.js

Use as standalone

If you just want to give it a go, try out the start.js file in Janeway's main folder:

node start.js

Use in your application

You can load Janeway like this:

var Janeway = require('janeway');

// Janeway will take over the screen only when you call start
Janeway.start();

The screen automatically scrolls down when a new line is pushed (unless you've scrolled the screen manually). You can disable this like so:

Janeway.scrollDown = false;

Author

You can follow me on twitter: @skeriten

License

MIT