Parse ANSI escape code colors in the browser?

Question

I have a source that has ANSI escape code color attached to the strings it spits out. These strings are being sent to the browser. I want to parse these ANSI escape codes with javascript in the browser so the it looks like it would in a terminal window.

The goal: ANSI strings -> html spans with styling

Is this possible? First I need to know how to parse ANSI strings in JS.

Thanks!!

Answer 1

https://github.com/mmalecki/ansispan

Answer 2

It's been done before. A quick Google search finds escapes.js as one example.