Terminal's flexibility.
Web UI's interactivity.
Choose two.

Zint is an enhanced terminal app that supports piping shell command outputs into React components.

Enjoy Graphical UIs, right in your terminal !

Do you spend lots of time in a terminal enjoying its flexibility and composability, but feel limited when it comes to displaying structured data, large files or rich content ?

Here are a few examples of things that can be done with Zint:

Open multimedia files

Display any kind of file that a browser could display : PDF, image, audio, video, SVG...

open a PDF as simply as : cat file.pdf | zint

Create a simple data labelling tool in minutes

No need for any complex platform to get a Web UI to label some data. Write a simple React component that displays your data and gathers the label, and get started with a simple shell for loop!

label a lot of files with a simple for loop

Plot an interactive graph of your data

display the raw data in the terminal

pipe the csv into a Chart React component

with a react component : cat AAPL.csv | zint chart

Finding out what takes space on your disk

pipe "du" into a grep command to get the largest files

normal terminal command : du | grep to try to find big files

pipe "du" into a Flame Graph React component

with a react component : du | zint flamegraph, browse the files sizes using an interactive Flame Graph

Private and Secure

If you see a terminal running arbitrary Web components and your first thought is What could possibly go wrong?, rest assured that we thought a lot about that.

We make extensive use of the security features offered by Electron in order to ensure that your machine and data stays safe.

Sandboxed, untrusted components

Web components are sandboxed in their own <iframe> and they have no access to the terminal, the other running components, or Electron APIs.

Rogue components won't be able to run commands on your system.

100% Offline and local

Web components, not web access. All requests from the Web components are blocked.

Your ls -l command is not going to be uploaded to the cloud to optimize your experience.

Zero data collection

We do not collect any data about the commands you run, the components you use, or anything else.

Fully extensible

We ship a few base web components but you can install any new components shipped separately, or build your own.

Pre-built components

Installing a new pre-built Zint component is as easy as copying a zip file.

Custom components

Do you have a cool React component you want to use? Package it for Zint in 5 minutes!

also...

Fast

Yes, it's an Electron app. But it's based on the extremely performant Xterm.js, GPU accelerated, and the web components are loaded dynamically. It's quite fast!

Multi-tabs & Multi-windows

Open several terminal tabs and windows with a key stroke. The web components are also running in their own tabs. Multi-panes coming soon.

Works through SSH

The React components are installed locally on your Mac and can be invoked while working on any machine (Mac/Linux) through SSH.

Works with any shell

No need to change anything about your shell, Zint should work right away.

Frequently Expected Questions

Any Questions?

Is it/Will it be available on Windows ? Linux ?

It is currently available for Mac Apple Silicon and can be built on Intel Mac. As an Electron app, it should be very doable to build it on linux. Windows is more difficult as the terminals are different there.

The zint command running inside the shell is available on MacOS and Linux.

Does it support only React?

Currently the only option supported is React (17). However as the app is based on iframes and microfrontends, the design would allow for any web tech supporting microfrontends.

Is this Open Source?

This is source-available for now, and will be open-source as soon as the license is decided upon.

Anything else?

Join us on Discord and ask away!