Silk

GUI For Developers and Node OS.

Goals

• Fast and Lightweight
• Designed for Developers
• Modular (most functionality is in apps; swap them, add new ones, removed unused. Eventually they will be installed from NPM)
• Just work (try to fix problems automatically, or, if unable, explain how to fix them)
• Lightweight remote desktop with the app front end running on your computer

Roadmap

Get started

npm i -g silk-gui 
silk

Use

silk - Starts silk
    -d - outputs more information to terminal.  Useful for debugging
    -r - gives you an url to visit to use silk remotely
    -o - opens Silk GUI in a full screen window

Open localhost:3000 or the remote url in a web browser.

Apps

Available Apps

Install apps using the App Manager.

Create an App

It is simple to create an app for Silk. Get Started!

How It Works

The core does basically three things:

1. Routing. Though apps using the new app framework have their own server and router.
2. Manage the apps.
3. Provide an api. There is a client api for apps to interact with the window manager and their server, as well as a server api for interacting with the core.

The window manager that is included with Silk GUI by default is Sleek.

All of the remainaing functionality is handled by apps, such as the app defaults app.

Contribute

All contributions are greatly appreciated.

To run locally:

git clone https://github.com/zodern/Silk.git
cd Silk
npm install
bower install

Related Projects

Apps:

• File Explorer
• Text Editor
• Terminal
• Task Manager
• App Manager
• App Defaults
• Tunnel Client

Window Manager

Remote Server