How to add a live (interactive) console window to Atom?

Question

Is it possible to add a live (interactive) console window to Atom? Note that this is similar to the article on adding a live console session to LightTable, except that it is fo

Answer 1

Boy, do things change. As of May 2018, terminal-panel, atom-terminal-panel and terminal-plus haven't been updated in years and aren't compatible with the new versions of Atom.

At the moment, platformio-ide-terminal also doesn't support the latest stable version of Atom (1.26) - it's only been maintained up to Atom 1.25. platformio-ide-terminal is also the terminal for platformio-ide, an IoT IDE. I don't recommend it for non-IoT applications.

So there doesn't seem to be a good terminal application for Atom's non-IoT use cases right now, unless you want to use an old version of Atom.