For the last 2 weeks I have been working on a new project of mine called "web desktop environment" (temporary name) and now I finally feel like the project is in a stage where it is ready to be shared with the world so...

❓ so what exactly is "web desktop environment"

So one big thing that sperate a typical Linux server from a regular PC is that your PC probably run something called a "desktop environment" while a server main interface would probably be a text-based command line or some sort of a Control Panel,
the reason for that is that the typical visual desktop environments will be too "heavy" and is most likely not design to run on something so performance optimizes like a server.

now the target of the "web desktop environment" software is to provides an easy to use, slim visual desktop environment that is designed to run on something like a server or any sort of small Linux machine. That way server management can become something that even less savvy people can do too, since they no longer need to deal with a command line.

🏞 a dark theme screenshot

🎥 demo video

👨🏾‍💻 👩🏾‍💻 So let's get into the details

"web desktop environment" is made out of two main packages a NodeJS server app - for the server and a React web app - for the client both are written in Typescript and are using Mce/Reflow to communicate between them.

🙃 I'm currently looking for a better name

the project name is currently "web desktop environment" which is a bit dry if you have any better idea for a name it will be great if you can comment it in the discussion below, thanks!!

More....

If all or just some of that sounds interesting for you fill free to check the project out in github/shmuelhizmi/web-desktop-environment.

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A web-based desktop environment - two months later

shmuelhizmi ・ Sep 24 '20

#react #linux #typescript #node