A cross-platform desktop-environment with a web interface
Installation and run guide
First, we need to make sure we have node and npm installed, I recommend using node 14.x with npm 7.x.
now we will install "web-desktop-environment" with the following commands -
npm install @web-desktop-environment/home-edition-server
or npm install @web-desktop-environment/development-edition-server --unsafe-perm
for the development edition of "web-desktop-environment".
After the "web-desktop-environment" server is installed we can run it using
the command web-desktop-home
or web-desktop-dev
for the development edition of "web-desktop-environment".
Now that "web-desktop-environment" is running we can enter "http://http.web-desktop.run" and connect to it.
to connect to the server we will need to enter the server host and port,
if we are running the server locally we can keep the default localhost
host, otherwise enter the server host IP,
to get the server port we can look at the server console output, it should print somewhere in the start something along the line of [ root ]: starting web-desktop-environment on port $PORT 0ms
we need to copy the value that is present in the place of $PORT
to the connection web-site.
Click on the "Login" button and we should now be done
What is a Web Desktop Environment
just like any other desktop environment it is just a visual interface for your computer.
the twist with "web-desktop-environment" compare to other desktop-environments is that "web-desktop-environment" visual interface runs on the web with his server running locally on your computer
Use Cases
- interface for a cloud server (can possibly be used as a replacement for a control panel)
- interface for small/low power computers like the Raspberry Pi zero
- interface for controlling your computer over a long distance
- interface for a development server
The technologies behind "web-desktop-environment"
both the server and are build using a react framework called "react-fullstack" which is a framework for building fast react applications that rely on a tight reactive connection between the client and the server.
Screenshots
Dark Theme Desktop
Mobile Screenshots
Transparent Theme Desktop
Nord Theme Desktop
Light Theme Desktop
Contribute
if you have any new feature or existing feature you want to create or improve fell free to open a Pull-Request, if you have any technical questions you can always contact me on twitter at @ShmuelHizmi .
Features
Desktop
Apps
To do
Desktop TO DO List
Apps TO DO List
Run from source
Note that to build the project you need to be running from a linux box (or wsl) with NPM 7 installed,
Run
quick run
1 npm start
or yarn start
Advanced run
install packages
npm run install
oryarn run install
run server
cd packages/development-edition-server
orcd packages/home-edition-server
yarn start
run client
cd packages/views
yarn start