Hyper Terminal Electron-Based

Hyper is a free and open-source terminal emulator built on web technologies (Electron, React, HTML, CSS, JavaScript) that allows users to customize and extend the terminal using the same tools and approaches used for web development. Created by Vercel (formerly ZEIT, headquartered in New York, founded by Guillermo Rauch in 2015) and first released in 2016, Hyper was designed to bring the extensibility and theming of web applications to the terminal. Key features: web-based rendering: unlike traditional terminal emulators that render text using native APIs, Hyper renders terminal content using an HTML5 canvas or xterm.js (a web-based terminal emulator), with the UI built using React components. This architecture enables unlimited customization via CSS and JavaScript. Plugin system: Hyper has a powerful plugin system based on npm packages. Plugins are installed via the Hyper config file (~/.hyper.js) and can modify the terminal appearance, add new commands, integrate with external tools, and create custom UI elements. Popular plugins include hyperpower (particle effects on keystrokes), hyper-pane (split panes and tabs), hyper-search (in-terminal search), hyperline (status bar), hypercwd (open new tabs in the current directory), and hyper-dracula (Dracula color theme). Themes: hundreds of community-created color themes available via npm, easily installed and switched. Customizable keybindings. Font customization (including ligatures and Nerd Fonts). Shell integration: works with bash, zsh, fish, PowerShell, and cmd.exe. Cross-platform: Linux, macOS, Windows (via Electron). Tab support: multiple tabs and split panes (via plugins). Color schemes: full ANSI color support with TrueColor (16 million colors). Performance: despite being built on Electron, Hyper provides reasonable terminal performance for most use cases, though it is heavier than native terminals like Alacritty or kitty. MIT.