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Building my own desktop environment for the web, my 10 months journey

shmuelhizmi on April 03, 2021

Around 9 and a half months ago I started working on a small idea I had, back then I thought to myself what if I could implement a full desktop envi...
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Dani Chu

Wow! This is an incredibly cool idea! I had similar thoughts and ideas, but I decided to focus on building the framework first. Thank you for the article. I will definitely follow your project.

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shmuelhizmi

Thanks, be sure to update me if you decide to pursue with your idea, competition is always good :)

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Dani Chu

okay! 👌

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Anoop Singh Tomar

It is a great idea. Adding to it, I was looking for creating a web server or something like this on which I can have my documents. And I can access the documents on internet from anywhere. For web server it could be low end system or on Raspberry Pi

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shmuelhizmi

Hey anoop, sounds cool, if you want there is a setup page on my github page if you like to try it out, you can easily download and soon even edit text document from "web-desktop-environment"

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Georgey

Not a bad idea
I mean its actually innovative
Inspired🌠!

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Patrick Wendo

Absolutely in awe

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Andrew Baisden

Wow very cool.

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Kehinde Adeleke

This is absolutely amazing. From the idea to the execution

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shmuelhizmi

Thank you

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CoolScratcher

Amazing job, I would have never had the patience!

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shmuelhizmi

Thanks!

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John

This is awesome! I just connected it to a docker container with minimal fuss.

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shmuelhizmi

Cool, let me know if you have any feedback!

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Seanmclem

How does your file manager work?

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shmuelhizmi • Edited

github.com/shmuelhizmi/web-desktop... - backend
should actually be simple to understand if you know react, if you want more advance details you can contact me on twitter :)

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Karyana Yandi

Interesting