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xterm.js/addons/addon-serialize
Daniel ImmsandCursor 17ad33dc3d Remove TypeScript path mappings in favor of relative imports
Fixes https://github.com/xtermjs/xterm.js/issues/5896

TypeScript path mappings for common/*, browser/*, and headless/*
were not rewritten in emitted JavaScript, which forced webpack resolve
aliases and NODE_PATH workarounds so runtime could resolve modules.
That added build complexity and broke tooling such as ESLint import/no-cycle.

Changes:
- Convert ~750 imports across src/, addons/, and test/ to relative paths
- Remove common/browser/headless paths and src catch-all mappings from tsconfigs
  (keep @xterm/addon-* demo and addon typings paths)
- Remove webpack resolve.alias for common, browser, headless, and vs
- Drop NODE_PATH from unit tests, benchmarks, and VS Code launch config
- Fix addon-image IIPImageStorage to import ./Types after removing catch-all *

Verified: npm run build, esbuild, package, package-headless
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
2026-05-31 09:16:10 -07:00
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2024-07-07 09:15:25 -07:00
2025-11-23 09:01:24 -08:00

@xterm/addon-serialize

An addon for xterm.js that enables xterm.js to serialize a terminal framebuffer into string or html. This addon requires xterm.js v4+.

⚠️ This is an experimental addon that is still under construction ⚠️

Install

npm install --save @xterm/addon-serialize

Usage

import { Terminal } from "@xterm/xterm";
import { SerializeAddon } from "@xterm/addon-serialize";

const terminal = new Terminal();
const serializeAddon = new SerializeAddon();
terminal.loadAddon(serializeAddon);

terminal.write("something...", () => {
  console.log(serializeAddon.serialize());
});

See the full API for more advanced usage.

Benchmark

⚠️ Ensure you have lolcat, hexdump programs installed in your computer

$ git clone https://github.com/xtermjs/xterm.js.git
$ cd xterm.js
$ npm ci
$ cd addons/addon-serialize
$ npm run benchmark && npm run benchmark-baseline
$ # change some code in `@xterm/addon-serialize`
$ npm run benchmark-eval