Actual Web Rendering in Terminal

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

Why?

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

Building

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

Installing from Source

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.

Usage

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: