Or just awrit.
awrit-demo.mp4
Yep, actual Chromium being rendered in your favorite terminal that supports the Kitty terminal graphics protocol.
awrit works best in Kitty v0.28 or newer
- Display documentation from DevDocs
- Watch the changes from Vite come to life
- Tiled layout without a tiling window manager using Kitty’s layouts
- Add fancy UI using web technologies, so NeoVim can pretend it is Emacs instead of the other way around
Installing from Brew (macOS only)
brew install chase/tap/awrit
Prerequisites
- CMake v3.22 or newer
- Ninja
Linux:
- Install these packages:
build-essential ninja-build cmake - For ArchLinux install these packages using
sudo pacman -S ninja cmake base-devel
macOS:
- Xcode 14.3, try xcodes
- Brew:
brew install ninja cmake - MacPorts:
port install ninja cmake
cmake -G "Ninja" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -S . -B build
cmake --build build
# The resulting build will be located in build/awrit/Release
# The build can be run from the top-level directory with ./build/awrit/Release/awrit
After building:
# install to the prefix ~/.local
cmake --install build --prefix ~/.local
# or if you're feeling adventurous
# install to the prefix /usr/local
# sudo cmake --install build --prefix /usr/local
If the installation prefix is in your PATH, it can be run with awrit.
You can check if awrit is in your PATH with which awrit.
awrit [url]
# if url is not provided, it will go to the awrit homepage (this is temporary, promise)
# the URL protocol can be http:, https:, or data:
# if the URL protocol is not included, https: is used by default
The data: URL in the demo video is the following:
awrit 'data:text/html;base64,PCFET0NUWVBFIGh0bWw+PGh0bWw+PGhlYWQ+PHN0eWxlPjpyb2
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