Rusty RPTerminal

[sanam2405]

The current RPTerminal shipped with the desktop application is non-functional. This is simply because the web-socket backend logic to handle the terminal sessions and spawning pseudo-terminals was handled by apps/api Node.js code. This is currently not being shipped with the desktop app.

The current RPTerminal is accessible only on the web application at /rterm. I need to create a native websocket terminal handler in Rust to ship it with the cross-platform desktop application too.

To-Do

• create a pty handler in Rust to handle terminal connections
• setup a bi-lateral communication channel
• execute the terminal commands as child-processes

Alternatives to writing a native rust-pty handler

• Bundle Node.js with the Tauri App
  To package Node.js with the Tauri app, I can use tools like pkg or nexe to bundle the Node.js runtime and the Express server into a single executable.
• Use Node.js as a Dependency
  If I prefer to ship Node.js alongside the Tauri app, I can include the Node.js runtime as part of the app distribution.

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