A collaborative shell in your browser

What is this?

If you have a coding or administrative issue and want to discuss it with me or you have just created the Next-Big-Thing(tm) and want to show off, you could share your shell with me.

A small binary connects your computer to the backend running here and a link will be printed to your terminal, that we both will use in our web browsers. You can open a new window, which connects back to your shell and each of us sees the exact same window. We can even both type into the same terminal (requires some sort of coordination, obviously...) There is a chat facility, where we can exchange messages and questions. If you do not want to grant input access to me, then you can specify the command line option '--enable-readers' and share a read-only link with me. Then I can view the session and chat, but cannot type into the terminals.

This is a fork of the "sshx.io" application, modified to connect your shell to my backend.

How to use it?

You can download the small app using this command line:

		curl -sSf https://michaelrommel.com/releases/get-sshx.sh | sh -s run
	

This downloads the binary to a temporary folder and executes it. Without the '-s run', the binary is just downloaded to your current directory and you can execute it yourself.

There are binaries for Linux and macOS for ARM and x86_64 architectures. Please note, that you have to login to this site, in order to use that functionality.