After 1 YEAR of hard work my NEW Ultimate Web Desktop Environment is ready for launch!!!!! 🎉🎉

LIVE LINK: https://dustinbrett.com/

Hey everyone, thanks for checking out my article on my passion project for the last year (and several years prior in different forms/codebases).

I've recently completed 52 weekly streams in 2021 as I worked on coding my app, from Hello World to what it is today.

Today (Jan 2nd) was the day of my first stream one year ago so I felt it was a good day to do this release. I will be having a LIVE 🔴 Release Party Stream later TONIGHT, (Jan 2nd, 2022) at 9 PM PT to celebrate finally getting the code live and also to answer any questions or comments anyone may have.

I'm also going to be answering questions throughout the 1st week of 2022 as I will post on several sub reddits that may find this project interesting. Today I have posted on /r/reactjs so feel free to go over there to comment.

Feature Summary

System 🧠

File System

File Explorer

Back, Forward, Recent locations, Address bar

Drag & Drop File Support (internal & external)

Loading progress dialog

ZIP (write support), ZIP/ISO read support, RAR extract support

Writes to IndexedDb

Group selection/manipulation & drag to sort

Dynamic and auto cached icons for music, images & video

Context Menus

Cut, Copy, Create shortcut, Delete, Rename
Add file, Map directory
Open with, Open file/folder location, Open in new window
Download, Add to archive, Extract here, Set as wallpaper
Sort by, New Folder, New Text Document

Keyboard Shortcuts

CTRL+C, CTRL+V, CTRL+X, CTRL+A, Delete
F2, F5, Backspace, Arrows, Enter

File information tooltips

Allow sorting by name, date, type or extension

Persists states

Windows

Resizable and Draggable

Minimize, Maximize & Close

Persists size/position/maximized states

Animates opening and closing

Start Menu

Expandable Sidebar

Apps list, Documents shortcut, Power (clears session)

Spotlight visual effect

Folder support

Keyboard shortcut opens with SHIFT+ESC

Taskbar

Peek hover preview of windows

Focused window indicator

Clock

Runs in a web worker

Synced to system clock on load

Date tooltip

Wallpaper

Dynamic animated wallpaper

Set via images (Fill, Fit, Stretch, Tile, Center)

URL

Query parameter loading

Examples:
/?url=/favicon.ico
/?app=TinyMCE

Apps 🧪

BoxedWine (.exe, .zip)

Runs 16/32-bit Windows applications

Browser (.htm, .html)

Loads websites (w/HTTP header support)

Bookmark bar

Favicon support

Back/Forward & Reload

Google search via Address bar

DevTools

Console, Elements, Network, Resources, Sources, DOM

Activate from Start Menu or SHIFT+F12

js-dos (.exe, .jsdos, .zip)

DOS emulator

Automatic save states on close

/Users/Public/Snapshots

Automatic window resize

Monaco Editor

Code/text editor

Supports all file types

Save files via CTRL+S

Line count, cursor position, language id

Prettier formatting

json, js/ts, css/sass/less, html, markdown

PDF (.pdf)

Renders PDF's

Page current/count & Zoom

Photos

Supported Formats

Fullscreen & Zoom

Ruffle (.swf, .spl)

Flash Player emulator

Terminal

File system support

Autocomplete & history

Command list via help

Git support (checkout & clone)

Python support (.py)

WebAssembly Package Manager

Examples:
wapm cowsay moo (#)
wax fortune (#)

Weather information

TinyMCE (.whtml)

Read & WYSIWYG modes

File save support

Virtual x86 (.img, .iso)

x86 emulator

Automatic save states on close

/Users/Public/Snapshots

Automatic window resize

Video Player

Supported Formats

Plays YouTube videos/shortcuts

Webamp (.mp3, .wsz)

Winamp audio player

Skin support

To Do 🔨

ASAP

Add custom session.json for sort orders

File search in Terminal & File Explorer

Status bar button to save Monaco on mobile

PDF change page/zoom inputs

IRC Client

Soon

Add 96x96 icons for higher dpi devices

Make desktop icons draggable around grid

Window Menu Bar

Open/Save File Dialog

File Explorer Column View

File Properties Dialog

NES/SNES Emulator

Light theme

FFMpeg Support

ImageMagik Support

System Tray

Eventually

Event Viewer

Task Manager

Run Dialog

Drag/Drop Taskbar Entries

Wapm I/O

Terminal piping

Virtual Assistant

Calendar

Spreadsheet Viewer

Browser Tabs

Fancy Zones

Service Worker

Bugs 🐛

General

Initial sort order is not based on session

Layout shifts when text is untruncated

Closing File Manager too quickly causes memory leak

Monaco breaks Vanta is loaded via url query

Space Cadet loads too big if BoxedWine is loaded

Mobile

Titlebar menu/clicking doesn't work properly when draggable

Safari Mobile

Drag image is black

V86 not working

Eruda is missing titlebar

Firefox

TinyMCE styling is reset on 2nd load

Webamp stays in front during File Explorer drags

Thank you very much for checking out my project and please feel free to leave me feedback in whatever forum you desire. I plan to be focusing my YouTube efforts on coding and various topics about my project throughout 2022 so feel free to check those out and subscribe to my channel.