I've been spending most of my day bouncing between a dozen terminal tabs and SSH sessions, so I built **cTerm** — a full-stack web app that gives you an IDE-style workspace for real shell sessions, all running in the browser.

It's a Node.js/React app under the hood: `xterm.js` on the frontend and `node-pty` on the backend, talking over WebSockets, with token-based auth so you're not leaving a shell open to the internet.

**What it does:**

* Split any terminal pane horizontally or vertically to build a grid of live sessions
* Drag and drop a terminal's header onto another pane to instantly swap sessions
* Save multiple named workspaces, each with its own independent pane layout
* Reconnect to running shells automatically — refresh the page and your layout, splits, and scrollback are all still there
* Connect a workspace to a remote host by pointing it at a standalone PTY server (handy if you're managing boxes/VMs in different places)
* Themes (Dracula, Nord, Cyberpunk, One Dark, Light), adjustable font size, and cursor style, because if I'm staring at a terminal all day it should at least look good

It's fully Dockerized (`docker compose up -d --build` and you're running), or you can run it locally with `npm run dev`.

Screenshot and full setup instructions (local dev, Docker, and multi-host deployment) are in the repo link.

It's MIT licensed. Would love feedback on the UI/UX or ideas for what to build next — a few things I'm already chewing on are command history search across panes and shareable read-only session links.

Built cTerm — a browser-based terminal workspace manager with multi-pane splits and remote server support