Show HN: WinBox – just like Windows, but for the web

• winbox

  18 6,105 6.6 JavaScript

  WinBox is a modern HTML5 window manager for the web: lightweight, outstanding performance, no dependencies, fully customizable, open source!

  

• franz

  48 4,481 7.5 JavaScript

  Franz is a free messaging app for services like WhatsApp, Slack, Messenger and many more.

  

Franz is still in this space, although it uses tabbed views for each service: https://meetfranz.com/

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io sponsored

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• dock-spawn-ts

  3 117 7.8 JavaScript

  A TypeScript HTML Docking Framework (fork of dock-spawn)

  

Try searching for "docking layout" with a dash of "Visual Studio" (the drop target hints presented by the original, non-Code version are quite good at letting the user figure out exactly where the dragged window will attach).

One example is https://github.com/node-projects/dock-spawn-ts , but there are many more. Maybe you can also tease out the layout logic from VS Code or Theia (or even better, someone else might have done the work).

• fos

  2 176 2.6 JavaScript

  Web Components to turn your web app into a fake operating system

May not be as featureful but I like fos [1], because it provides web components, which I can use on frameworks like Elm

[1] https://github.com/victorqribeiro/fos

• rc-dock

  3 624 4.1 JavaScript

  Dock Layout for React Component

  

I'm on the hunt for a good package like this for react. I have been experimenting with https://github.com/ticlo/rc-dock/ and it's pretty awesome. I think the vanilla js version is probably nice to use, though.

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

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