Linux used to be fun because expectations were low and possibilities were high. The online communities that gathered around it were truly pleasurable to be a part of. I hope to bring those same feelings back in the context of web development.
Although this project includes a desktop environment, it is not primarily about that. It is mainly about the idea that modern browsers now offer a programmatically accessible file system that exists within domain-specific "sandboxes." Click here to read more.
Try out the current version at linuxontheweb.github.io.
Here is the official help page for system users.
Locally deploying LOTW is as simple as simple can be. All you need to do is run a web server in the root of the project directory. On Linux, this command should suffice for most people:
python3 -m http.server
You should then be able to visit the site at http://localhost:8000. You can optionally specify a custom port number like so:
python3 -m http.server 12345
The site should then be live at http://localhost:12345.
vim is the recommended text editor, mainly because of the ability to enable row folding via the manual insertion of markers. Since the files in this repository can be quite large, row folding is an essential feature of the development side of LOTW. The instructions below are specific to vim's runtime configuration file, .vimrc.
To browse the source code as intended, the following lines must be included in your .vimrc:
set foldmethod=marker
set foldmarker=«,»
set foldlevelstart=0
To quickly toggle between opened and closed row folds with the Enter key, add this line:
nmap <enter> za
These instructions will enable the easy insertion of fold markers into your code (from both normal and insert mode).
To insert an open fold marker, invoked with Alt+o, add these lines:
execute "set <M-o>=\eo"
nnoremap <M-o> a//«<esc>
inoremap <M-o> //«
To insert a close fold marker, invoked with Alt+c, add these lines:
execute "set <M-c>=\ec"
nnoremap <M-c> a//»<esc>
inoremap <M-c> //»
To insert both an open and close fold marker, with a space in between, invoked with Alt+f, add these lines:
execute "set <M-f>=\ef"
nnoremap <M-f> a//«<enter><enter>//»<esc>
inoremap <M-f> //«<enter><enter>//»