Looking for something like gotty but designed to be consumed as an HTTP API

[anderspitman]

Sorry if this doesn't belong here. Feel free to close it in that case, but I figured there's a good chance the gotty devs could help point me in the right direction.

Essentially, I'm looking for a tool to allow a javascript browser library to initiate arbitrary shell command pipelines on a backend server, and stream the results back to the client. It needs to support piping multiple CLI applications together. For example:

const command = jsLib.executeOnServer('ls -l | wc')
command.on('data', (data) => {
  ...
})

Obivously this is a minefield in terms of security, and I would expect to have to jump through a lot of hoops in order to use it safely (ie maybe limited to only running binaries in a specific directory on the server, whitelisted binaries, chroot, etc).