A small fun application that uses the Github API, to display a terminal like interface on the web page. You run commands that allow you to list all the repositories of a user and the commits made by them.
Copy all the files into your Github user page’s repository or wherever you are planning to host it. Open js/terminal.js, and change the GIT_USER variable to your own username.
Its pretty easy to write your own commands once you understand how the Terminal object parses the input and how other commands are written. The Terminal class has a Terminal.commands hash object which has hash objects inside it containing information about the command. The default commands are written into the object when the Terminal.addDefaultCommands() method is run after initialization. You can either write you command’s code inside this method or modify the Terminal.commands from your own methods.
Thus to make a new command you write -
this.commands.set('command_name',{<attributes>};
| Name | Value | Description |
| help | String | Give a small description about the usage of the command. This is what will show up when the `help` function is run by the user |
| exec | function(arguments) | This is where you’ll write your command’s code. If your commands was preceded by any arguments, for example “git log” or “git diff SHA1”, the arguments will be passed to the function inside an array |
| Any other function | function() | If your commands needs multiple functions you can also make it a part of this hash |
Thus, the whois command was a written like this -
this.commands.set('whois',{help:'Gives you information about the user.',exec: function(){
var whois = new Element('div',{class:'info'}).update(git.userdata.user.name+", "+git.userdata.user.company+" ("+git.userdata.user.login+") \t <a href=\'"+git.userdata.user.blog+"\'>"+git.userdata.user.blog+"<\/a> <br> <a class=\'green\' href=\'mailto:"+git.userdata.user.email+"\'>"+git.userdata.user.email+"<\/a>");
git.addData(whois);
}});
The git.addData(elem), method takes an elements which it renders onto the terminal. Here git is the name of the object that has inherited from Terminal, it has been set as global variable so that callbacks can be made easily when a commands uses the API.
github-terminal is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.
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