Open Source JavaScript Terminal Emulators

eDEX-UI is a fullscreen, cross-platform terminal emulator and system monitor designed with a customizable science fiction computer interface. Inspired by the TRON Legacy movie effects, eDEX-UI presents a futuristic look and feel while still being able to function as a full-featured terminal emulator. eDEX-UI offers advanced monitoring support for real-time systems and networks. It also offers full touchscreen support; a directory viewer; and for a completely unique sci-fi experience, advanced customization options via themes, on-screen keyboard layouts, CSS injections, and even optional sound effects. If you’re a science fiction fan or are just looking for something different in a terminal emulator, eDEX-UI will surely satisfy and give you a cool and unique experience.

wsl-terminal is a Windows terminal emulator package designed for Windows Subsystem for Linux. It is based on mintty, fatty, and wslbridge2, combining a familiar Unix-style terminal experience with WSL integration. The project was created for users who wanted a better WSL terminal before Microsoft’s newer Windows Terminal became common. It provides launcher scripts, shell integration, context-menu helpers, and configuration options for opening WSL environments from Windows. wsl-terminal is especially useful as a historical and practical tool for users who prefer mintty-style behavior when working with Linux distributions on Windows. Its main value is giving WSL users a polished terminal experience with better ergonomics than the old default console.

MurmurSSH is an open-source SSH and SFTP client for Linux, designed as a simple, reliable, and fully local alternative to cloud-based or complex tools. It focuses on clarity and usability, offering a minimal interface, fast connection handling, and straightforward file operations. All profiles and configurations are stored locally — no accounts, syncing, or background services. MurmurSSH supports password and SSH key authentication, including passphrase-protected keys. Host key verification is handled transparently, allowing users to manage trust decisions per session or permanently. The integrated SFTP browser enables efficient file management, including upload, download, move, and recursive transfers with multi-file support. A terminal can be launched externally when needed, keeping workflows flexible without forcing an embedded terminal.

Norton commander style, native Linux file manager and sophisticated editor. Whole app is aimed at developing source code. It is supposed to be your terminal and file manager and source code editor all together integrated in a really cool way. Written in JavaScript, Node.js and npm based, thus extremely configurable and scriptable. This program is for true geeks. It is neither terminal program nor traditional gui. It has terminal client built in. Easy switch between panels and terminal and text editor and hex viewer. It's developed by a single person so far therefore any help is appreciated, spread the word, localize, write docs, add features. Installation instructions are here: https://github.com/exebook/deodar/blob/master/установка.букв

Discuz! Command Prompt is a plugin for Discuz! forum system that emulates the famous DOS environment, written using AJAX and PHP.

Online Command Line Interface is a project intended to bring feel of the classic command lines exhibited by GNU&Linux operating systems. It is written entirely in Javascript, and works on all major browsers.

RealMint is an ANSI terminal emulator and telnet client written completely in JavaScript. When installed, RealMint lets you login to your server from a web browser using telnet and an encrypted HTTPS tunnel.

Shell Commander is a PHP script, that allows remote execution of shell commands (like SSH client) through a web browser.

A PHP-based Ajax-terminal. Very usefull if you only have FTP-access to a server. Complete commandline MySQL-client is also build in.

WidgetTerm is a terminal Dashboard Widget for Mac OS X 10.4 or above. This widget implements the terminal function through the Web Kit Plug-in in Objective-C powered by iTerm's open source terminal implementation.

ajaxWM is a themable ajax-and-python-based window manager, which provides multiple flexible terminals in a web-browser for comfortable remote-controlling of a computer via a network without having to install any software on the client-side.

etcWebClient is a Unix/Linux server application that allows users to connect to the server from a browser. The web-based application includes an Editor, filesystem Treeview, and Console (etc).

h3270 is a program that allows you to use IBM 3270 hosts from within a web browser. It is different from other, similar systems because of its highly configurable layout engine that is based on regular expressions.

A project to enable a vt102 terminal emulator to be run in a web browser.