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Looks like a frontend for the command line utility FIGlet (http://www.figlet.org/) or toilet (http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/toilet).
Except it's actually worse than typical frontends. It's maybe cleaner looking, but it doesn't allow you to test all font types at the same time.
I did my own take on this that addresses both of your concerns: 1. Update as you type 2. Show all fonts

http://ascii.today/

This incurs performance issues in long strings, but works great for most uses.

This is really fantastic work. Bookmarking for later.
It amazes me that FIGlet are still releasing for MS-DOS, Acorn, OS/2 and Amiga in 2014.
If you like figlet, pipe its ouput into lolcat
Or pipe to sed for "emoji art"
Are there any that are client-side / javascript instead of server side?
Generating all the styles at once could be helpful. Nice work
Does anyone know a tool like this that doesn't send queries to the server? I know there are command-line options, but I'm looking for something like a github.io URL that has no server-side component.
For Windows users, I strongly recommend trying this beauty: https://ascgendotnet.jmsoftware.co.uk/screenshots/

It has numerous features for customization, such as specification for characters to be used in the art, font face, size. It mat export to text or png of the text in color. It allows you to adjust the color levels of the source image, or crop it on the fly.

It is not exactly the same type of software, as it actually generates using a source image. I use it sometimes to make gifts for friends.