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Re:Show HN: Building terminal dashboards using ASCII/ANSI ar... by tmandry on Wednesday January 14, 2015 @09:51PM (#8890634)
At first I thought this was just an awful idea, but after hearing what you're using it for I want to use it myself :P

Did you look into the possibility of "adapting" something like d3 to draw on the terminal? Or does it just lack the abstractions necessary to do that cleanly?

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Re:Show HN: Building terminal dashboards using ASCII/ANSI ar... by yaronn01 on Wednesday January 14, 2015 @09:59PM (#8890656)
Initially I used chart.js to paint the charts but I had to introduce it so many flags (no label Transformation, sensitive spacing etc) that I reverted to do it myself (even though I also have a working version with an altered chart.js).

I am using node-drawville which provides an Html5 canvas Api abstraction over the terminal. D3 uses svg so it is not adequate. However I did saw a port of d3 to canvas which I didn't had time to check.

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