title: Is there a REPL like iPython for Nodejs?
body: <p><strong>Is there any kid of "repl + extra features" (like showing docs, module autoreload etc.), like iPython, but for Nodejs?</strong></p>
  
  <p>And I mean something <em>that runs locally &amp; offline.</em> This is a must. And preferably to work both in terminal mode and have an optional nicer GUI on top (like iPython + iPythonQT/Jupyter-qtconsole).</p>
  
  <p>The standard Nodejs repl is usable, but it has horrible usability (clicking the up-arrow cycles through the repl hisoty <em>by line</em> instead of <em>by multi-line command</em>, as you would expect any sane repl to work for interactively experimenting with things like class statements), and is very bare-bones. Every time I switch from iPython to it it's <em>painful.</em> A browser's repl like Chrome's that you can run for node too by starting a node-inspector debug session is more usable... but also too cumbersome.</p>