Textual In Browser?

[carsonharmon]

Hi Will,

I love the TUI aesthetic and wanted to make a personal website for myself based on something like xterm.js.

I saw your AMA on Reddit about textual, and since it has more in common with JS frameworks, I was wondering if there was a way to display the TUI's in a browser?

Thanks for your time and for your open source work.

[lllama]

So I'm pretty sure I've seen Textual running in the terminal in VS Code, and that uses xterm.js so there's no reason it won't work in the browser.

[willmcgugan]

THere's no build in way at the moment, but I'm sure any terminal in a browser solution will work just fine.

[lllama]

I've used this before to host a bash prompt on a website: https://tsl0922.github.io/ttyd/

I'm sure you could point it at a Textual app.

[eudoxos]

For the record, ttyd works nicely (ttyd -p 9090 python3 -m textual.app), it also handles multiple clients gracefully — each new client gets its own instance of the app.

It is not visually perfect, though it might be perhaps improved by specifying custom font via ttyd theming params (-t; tsl0922/ttyd#31 discusses custom fonts).