Introducing Nodes: a reimagined web OS with composable apps

Nodes is a new hackable lightweight offline-first web OS which means you can use it wright in your browser even if you are offline.

Hello! My name is Tim and I am a web developer.

Today developers use lots of open source small focused libs to create apps, but those apps are not composable.

Imagine we have approach to build small focused apps(like url preview, note taking, kanban board, chat and so on) and then combine them to achieve next level of functionality.

Also I struggle to find better approaches to UI design and overall user experience, so that apps and environment can help user stay focused, productive and at the same time have fun.

Experiments on this topic led me to create Nodes.

It is work in progress, but some patterns are already visible:

• Nodes is like directories with superpowers given by micro-apps called sides.
• Each side “do one thing and do it well”(like url preview, text note and so on)
• Node can contain one instance of each side type and another nodes.

This enables fractal design of arbitrary problem solving.

Given that sides can be developed independently by OSS community and then easily and instantly “installed” from url and that every node(with all child nodes) can be used as template to create new nodes we get simple, scalable and robust alternative to current “bunch of closed source independent apps” situation.

Now you can try Nodes, it is working offline-first(cloud or decentralised collaboration can be added on top of that), and showcase this ideas. Code is available on Github. Your feedback and support on Patreon is highly appreciated! Have a nice day;)

P. S. It is my first open source project, so please be merciful to me🙏