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Piping terminal output to the browser using systemfd

Quality: 8/10 Relevance: 9/10

Summary

A technique to stream live terminal output to a browser during development using systemfd and watchexec. It walks through a Bash based compile_and_run workflow, uses socat to keep an open socket and stream logs, and optionally adds a browser terminal frontend with xterm.js to tighten the feedback loop for compiled languages like Rust.

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