Asciinema player: open source terminal session player written in ClojureScript

FWIW, asciinema is something that's been posted and discussed before...what's new is that the player can be self-hosted, as it consists of nothing more than a JS and CSS file. This means the recording can be exported as a flat JSON file. Previously, the only option was to host the replay on the asciinema server: http://blog.asciinema.org/post/self-hosting/

As someone who writes a few tutorials on programming...this is a godsend. Novices need to be able to see how the code works interactively...but it's a real pain in the ass to render animated GIFs. Asciinema creates something that is lightweight and just text, for all the flexibility and portability that allows.

See also, https://asciinema.org

An impressively unexciting example can also be seen here: https://pharext.org

I love how this and tty-player work and just wish more people used them for tutorials! Great work and thank you.

asciinema player: 4799 lines of code

script + scriptreplay: 1031 lines of code

The name reminded me of the animated ASCII Star Wars: telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl