console-web-ui

Examples to show case how to build web based UI (that can be invoked using curl) for console applications using Javascript(NodeJS).

Blog post: https://medium.com/@atulanand94/building-web-based-uis-for-terminals-using-javascript-60b5eee31213

Demo version:

It is hosted on heroku here:

https://console-web-ui.herokuapp.com/

To run locally:

1. git clone this repo
2. npm install
3. npm start

This should launch the server in port:3000

After that open another terminal and do:

Simple Example

curl http://localhost:3000/hello/

or

wget -q -O - http://localhost:3000/hello/

Animated Example

curl http://localhost:3000/anime-hello/

or

wget -q -O - http://localhost:3000/anime-hello/

Also, you can check out my other console web service here:

http://byemck.atulr.com