About two months ago I have posted here an article on a project of mine called "web-desktop-environment", if you're interested in the idea of a web-based desktop environment you can read about it here

in this post I'm going to share the progress I have made since I first posted the article

A brief introduction to the project 👩‍🏫

"web-desktop-environment" is a desktop-environment (a visual interface for a computer) that can run in a web browser over a NodeJS server, the advantages of "web-desktop-environment" over a regular desktop-environment is that it is much slimmer and portable compare to a regular desktop.

Use cases

• interface for a cloud server (can possibly be used as a replacement for control panel)
• interface for small/low power computers like the Raspberry Pi zero
• interface for controlling your computer over a long distance

A demo video 📹

A live demo 🖥

There is a live demo (serverless) running here

PWA Screenshot 🎞

This is a screenshot of the app running as a PWA in a detachable windows mode

Upcoming features 🎆

Media Players apps are on their way

Looking to build a full-stack app that pushes the web to its limits yourself?

if so you may be interested in the framework I build and used to build this project, the framework is "@react-fullstack/fullstack" and you can read more about it here

All my progress since the first post 🥳

Since the last update, I have made a few new features and improvement

• Resizeable windows - you can now resize windows.
• Notepad - a notepad app.
• PWA - the app can now also run as Progressive Web App.
• Detachable windows mode - you can now run the desktop in a detachable windows mode which means that every window will open as a separate native window.
• style changes - the app is currently moving thought a big style redo, to give it a more "native os" like style.
• big speed improvement from moving the backend from reflow to my own framework "@react-fullstack/fullstack"
• custom themes - create your own theme using the settings app

Contribute yourself 🎁

if you like the project and interested in contributing to it yourself - feel free to open a PR thought Github.
Note that contribution does not have to be in the code side of things, contributing to the project README would be awesome!

Checkout the project 🎮