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this reminds me of iPython. similar?

It's the same, if you replace Python with JS, and have the Python running remotely on a server/container somewhere (instead of it running locally).

We wrote a pretty in depth look at some of the key differences here: http://blog.tonicdev.com/2015/09/10/time-traveling-in-node.j... if you are interested in more detail.