OS.js is a light-weight JavaScript based web/cloud desktop solution.
Current version: Alpha
Application API is stable. FS and Handler API is subject to change.
If you find any bugs report them back to me and I'll have them squashed
- Completely rewritten (API breakage)
- Easier to extend core and deploy custom builds
- Easier to create custom applications
- Smaller and faster
- Tons of improvements
- Dropped support for legacy browsers
- Runs standalone on any web-server (Filesystem APIs requires using the PHP or Node backend)
- Very simple setup
- No 3rd party libraries (runs on native browser libs)
- Window Manager
- Desktop Environment
- Session Handling (Support for resuming previous workspaces)
- Package Management (User-installable applications)
- User Management (Custom login and settings storage)
- GUI Library (With Drag-and-drop support)
- Dialog Library
- Supports both Applications and Background-services
- File System functions
- A basic Theme implementation (icons, sounds and CSS styles)
- Multi-user environment support
- Localization and translations
Comes bundeled with the default theme and some applications:
- Draw - A simple drawing application
- File Manager - File Management
- Preview - For viewing images and videos
- Music Player - For listening to audio files
- Process Viewer - View running processes
- Textpad - A notepad-type application
- Writer - Richtext editor
You can easily add more applications by using external repositories. More information on Wiki
An example repository: OS.js-v2-extras
You can have a look here: http://osjsv2.0o.no
This site may not always be up to date, and can be unavailable at times.
See the INSTALL.md file
Source documentation and examples are located in the doc/ folder.
Everything else is in the GitHub Project Wiki pages (linked below).
The backend runs on Mac, BSD and Linux. Frontend only requires a modern browser with HTML5 support.
Runs in any modern browser. Tested:
- Gecko Mozilla Firefox
- WebKit Google Chrome, Opera, Safari
- Internet Explorer 10+
- Android and iOS is working, but no mobile version is implemented yet
See the LICENSE file.