tractordev/apptron

Local-first development platform

"The amount of amazing technology in this project is staggering. Seriously, star this." —ibuildthecloud

"WOW there's a lot of interesting stuff in there!" —simonw (see full report)

The "project environment" is the main object of Apptron. It is a full Linux environment running in the browser with a VSCode-based editor for you to do whatever you want with. For example, you can use it as:

However, it is fully extendable, customizable, and self-hosted so you could even use it as the foundation for your own development platform or software system.

Unlike cloud IDEs, Apptron runs entirely in the browser and does not depend on the cloud. It also only happens to be an IDE, as it is primarily an IDE for itself as a general compute environment, similar to Smalltalk.

Since it is written mostly in Go, it has first-class language support for Go. However, you are encouraged to get other languages to work on it and add them as supported languages.

Apptron runs Alpine Linux with a custom Linux kernel in v86 by way of Wanix, which gives it extra capabilities such as native Wasm executable support and access to various DOM APIs through the filesystem.