In the node ecosystem there are a few interesting ones.

https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink for writing TUIs with react. Here's a project I wrote using that: https://github.com/zephraph/solitaire. It's not as powerful as ncurses, but it works rather well.

If you want something more on par with ncurses try https://github.com/cronvel/terminal-kit

This is the one that most catches my attention.

Currently actively maintained plus it has something analagous to a document object model https://github.com/cronvel/terminal-kit/blob/master/doc/docu...

Also Ink is incredibly interesting as it enables ReactJS for creating TUI apps - mind bending!

https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink

I can imagine the things above being combined with a sandbox plus Fabrice Bellard's QuickJS https://bellard.org/quickjs/ into a new type of application ..... the "pure text mode browser".

A "pure text mode browser" would not be designed to render ordinary HTML web pages, but would instead be a minimal browser designed only for text mode.