The main use I intended for this is to make it ridiculously easy to make useful developer tools - CLIs come really natural to devs, and so I tried to make something a ton of people could build off of to make a ton of cool tools.<p>An example of a project I want to get to using it is a database CLI app - it can save your credentials, lets you connect to and query the db, give auto-completed suggestions, etc. This is now really easy to do in Javascript, and you just couldn&#x27;t do that before very easily.<p>On your question, yeah - there is something Norton Commander-ish - it&#x27;s a library called blessed, by Christopher Jeffrey, who&#x27;s pretty boss at CLI apps:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;chjj&#x2F;blessed" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;chjj&#x2F;blessed</a>