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The original was posted on /r/opensource by /u/dashborg on 2023-11-22 22:50:57.
What if your command line terminal could display more than just text? That’s crazy, right (I can hear the screams of thousands of graybeard sysadmins). Well not all the time, but maybe just when you want it to. Like displaying Markdown, Images, or CSVs (that you can actually copy from and paste directly into Excel). Or being able to run an editor, natively, right inline in your terminal that has mouse support, copy/paste, indentation, and syntax highlighting right out of the box for when you need to copy a line or two into your remote .bashrc file?
That’s why we built Wave, to keep what’s best about the command line while adding the power of the open web. We built inline renderers for terminal content and remote files to help keep you in flow and reduce terminal. We have 4 initial plugins: inline code/file editor, markdown viewer, image viewer, and a CSV viewer. And when I say viewer, I don’t mean “text based UI”, I mean real, rich UI, as-rendered-in-a-browser UI.
Being open is part of our core mission. Our code is open source (Apache 2.0), and our plugins are written in TypeScript/React. We don’t require an email, a login, or payment to use our terminal (it’s free as in speech and as in beer). We’re also proud to be shipping a Linux version of Wave alongside the MacOS version (with a Windows WSL port coming soon).
But this isn’t just about a simple renderer trick. We’ve been working on Wave for over a year and have 1100 commits in our repo before this launch. We’re on a mission to improve DevEx across the board and fix all sorts of terminal micro-frustrations. Wave manages your remote SSH connections, seamlessly restoring sessions, persisting sessions, and giving you a searchable universal history of all the commands you’ve run, across all your sessions and remote machines.
If you’re interested, please give it a try and give us a Star on Github to show your support for Open Source! Feedback, bugs, feature requests, and contributions are all welcome! Happy Hacking, and Happy Thanksgiving :)
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