/wexond

:globe_with_meridians: An extensible web browser with beautiful UI.

Primary LanguageTypeScriptMIT LicenseMIT

Wexond

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Wexond is a web browser built on top of Electron, React and styled-components.

Features

  • Built-in ad-block Browse the web without any ads.
  • Beautiful and minimalistic UI The tabs and address bar are located in the same toolbar to take less space.
  • Tab groups Easily group tabs to tab groups and access them very fast.
  • Expanded new tab page Have all information such as news, weather or currency in only one page!
  • Partial support for Chrome extensions Install some extensions from Chrome Web Store (see wexond#110)

Screenshots

Home page

Downloads

All binaries are located in the Releases page.

Roadmap

We still have a lot of things to do, to make Wexond better and better. This is just a beginning. So to improve our web browser we have created a roadmap so that you can see the next features and improvements.

Supported WebExtensions APIs

There is a lot of APIs, but we are only two very young programmers, so any help would be really appreciated and welcomed.

Contributing

We really appreciate any changes and improvements, so feel free to open pull requests! If you have found any issues, please report them. This would really help us making the browser even better!

If you want to contribute, check our Contributing guidelines and Code Of Conduct.

Development

If you want to develop Wexond, you will need to run some commands, but don't worry, we will explain you everything. Please make sure you have installed Node.js. Also, we assume you have cloned the repository.

First, you will need to install all needed dependencies to run and build Wexond by typing this simple command:

$ npm install

If you have installed all dependencies successfully, just type

$ npm run watch

This will watch code for changes

and to start Wexond, type

$ npm start

Other commands

Usage:

$ npm run <command>
Command Description
build-production Bundles Wexond's source in production mode.
compile-win32 Compiles Wexond binaries for Windows.
compile-darwin Compiles Wexond binaries for macOS.
compile-linux Compiles Wexond binaries for Linux.
electron-rebuild Rebuilds all dependencies for Electron.
lint Lints code.
lint-fix Fixes eslint errors if any
start Starts Wexond.
watch Watches code for changes

Documentation

At this moment there are no docs for the theming system.

Guides and the API reference are located in docs. It also contains documents describing how to use the browser, and create themes.