Top 6 TypeScript Wayland Projects

bismuth

138 2,342 0.0 TypeScript

KDE Plasma add-on, that tiles your windows automatically and lets you manage them via keyboard, similarly to i3, Sway or dwm.

Project mention: Cosmic Desktop: Hammering Out New Cosmic Features | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-18

What level are you interested in scripting? In KDE Plasma you can interact with the desktop UI via JS: https://develop.kde.org/docs/plasma/scripting/
And then for something more sophisticated there are extensions like https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth.
It does all feel a little disorganized/wild-west-y compared to say, a .vimrc with a list of plugins and bindings, which is something that makes a system like Nix (or a fully containerized DE of some kind) appealing

ags

2 1,363 9.7 TypeScript

A customizable and extensible shell

Project mention: Hyprland Crash Course | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-23

Lots of what the article talks about pertains to the difference between a 'full DE' and 'just a WM'. Gnome and KDE fall in the first category. They have a notification system, lockscreens, app launcher, etc by default. Hyprland doesn't. It puts windows on your screen and allows you to control their layout, everything beyond that, you can add yourself.
This article mentions dunst for notifications, Rofi for app launchers, Waybar for a status bar, swaylock for screen locking, ... I've been having a great time using just AGS [0]. AGS, at its core, is a framework to write all of those tools. It is based on the same technology that Gnome Shell uses, i.e. GJS. You can build up all of the widgets you want and need using Gtk and replace all of the tools I mentioned before. But be warned: AGS only provides you with the libraries you need, you'll still need to build the UI yourself. Unless you copy someone else's configuration of course ;)
[0] https://github.com/aylur/ags

SurveyJS

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greenfield

17 880 6.6 TypeScript

HTML5 Wayland compositor :seedling:

Project mention: New Renderers for GTK | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-29

There's Greenfield, an HTML5 Wayland compositor. https://github.com/udevbe/greenfield
There's some fancy bridging modes to run apps in a browser, but the author has also been working on a way to make wasm Wayland apps run directly in the browser tol.

polonium

9 714 9.2 TypeScript

Autotile manager for Plasma 6

Project mention: Hyprland Crash Course | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-23

This is a fork of bismuth that works with plasma 6. Haven't tried it, but it is supposedly quite nice
https://github.com/zeroxoneafour/polonium

gnome-gesture-improvements

7 308 2.2 TypeScript

Touchpad gesture improvements for GNOME on Wayland/X11
wayland-explorer

25 173 7.2 TypeScript

Easily browse and read Wayland protocols documentation

Project mention: PCSX2 Disables Wayland Support | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-26

Wayland is good until you hit the corner cases that they decided to abandon, without leaving any alternatives. We can always have extra protocol that can be optionally enabled, but good luck with standardizing that. It feels as if Wayland people are abusing their committee to keep Wayland as-is, instead of extending it. The protocol dashboard[1] doesn't look exactly good.
[1]: https://wayland.app/protocols/

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).