webframe is now a tool for scripting and testing pages, not just watching them. You can inject stubs, run test files after load, pass in secrets, set timeouts, and let the page set the exit status, and hidden pages run unthrottled on every platform.
permalinkThe first release of webframe, which runs a web page like a program: it loads a URL in a hidden web view and wires its console to stdout, its exceptions to stderr, and stdin to a JavaScript REPL. It's a single ~5 MB binary that uses the webview your OS already has.
permalinkWanix Elements are web components for declaring filesystems, tasks, VMs, terminals, and even VS Code in plain HTML, so you can build a sandboxed Unix-style environment in the browser with a few tags. This preview also adds the rc shell and a Wanix-ready Alpine Linux as CDN extras.
permalinkOur biggest Apptron release yet. Embeds can now be just a terminal in Console Mode, public sites work offline with an automatic service worker, and environments got 4x faster networking and up to 2x faster builds.
permalinkVisual Studio Code is no longer just a developer tool.
If you go back to the first talk ever given on webhooks, it opens on the command-line.
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In this demo I show an experimental feature of Apptron that lets you customize the window frame using HTML and CSS. This allows us to create re-usable themes. Apptron even comes with a few builtin.
continue (6 more ¶)In this week’s demo I built a background application using HTML and Apptron. It may seem weird to involve a webview at all for a background app, which is why this was not a use case I had planned, but I was pleasantly surprised to discover how this turned out.
continue (5 more ¶)In this demo I show off the rest of the Apptron CLI, which exposes most of the cross-platform APIs as commands. These commands make great shell scriptable utilities, and you can see how they’ve been designed to facilitate this. By the end, we’ll have created an app indicator (systray) icon and menu that’s created and driven by a shell script.
continue (6 more ¶)In this demo I use the Apptron build command to create an executable from a single HTML file. No setup, no configuration. If you want to change how the window looks, you can add a meta tag to your HTML file. It’s not only simple, it’s fast.
continue (8 more ¶)In this demo, I use the Apptron API from Go to build a simple birthday card application defined by HTML and CSS. I also explore the architectural approach of Apptron compared to directly working with platform native APIs.
continue (11 more ¶)I’m happy to announce the first major building block of the Tractor System: Apptron.
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