Overview
Forked from coder/ghostty-web. Runs Ghostty's terminal parser in the browser through WebAssembly, with a TypeScript API modelled on xterm.js.
This fork adds renderer fixes and integration work for projects such as webterm and ios-linuxkit.
How it works
The browser loads Ghostty's terminal parser as a WebAssembly module. TypeScript code connects terminal input and output to the host application and renders the screen. The host supplies the session transport; ghostty-web is not a server-side Ghostty process.
In webterm, a Go backend manages PTY sessions and go-te produces server-side dashboard previews. Those services sit outside the browser terminal library.
Features
Ghostty in the browser
WebAssembly terminal parsing with a TypeScript frontend.
Familiar API
An xterm.js-compatible API for integrating terminal views into web applications.
Application integration
Used by webterm and ios-linuxkit, with rendering fixes maintained in this fork.
Architecture
Posts
2026-05-10
Notes for May 3-10