[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#859879: RFP: xterm.js -- terminal front-end component for the browser

[Ghislain Antony Vaillant]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : xterm.js
  Version         : 2.5.0
  Upstream Author : SourceLair Private Company <https://www.sourcelair.com>
* URL             : https://github.com/sourcelair/xterm.js
* License         : Expat
  Programming Lang: JavaScript
  Description     : terminal front-end component for the browser

Long-Description:
 Xterm.js is a terminal front-end component written in JavaScript that works in
 the browser.
 .
 It enables applications to provide fully featured terminals to their users and
 create great development experiences.
 .
 Features:
 .
   - **Text-based application support**: Use xterm.js to work with applications
     like `bash`, `git` etc.
   - **Curses-based application support**: Use xterm.js to work with
     applications like `vim`, `tmux` etc.
   - **Mouse events support**: Xterm.js captures mouse events like click and
     scroll and passes them to the terminal's back-end controlling process
   - **CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) character support**: Xterm.js renders
     CJK characters seamlessly
   - **IME support**: Insert international (including CJK) characters using IME
     input with your keyboard
   - **Self-contained library**: Xterm.js works on its own. It does not require
     any external libraries like jQuery or React to work
   - **Modular, event-based API**: Lets you build addons and themes with ease

This software is a runtime dependency for the integrated terminal plugin for
the Spyder IDE.