exokit

Exokit: Javascript web browser for the post-screen world

exokit https://example.com # run site in WebGL/VR/AR

Exokit is a full HTML5 web browser, written as a node.js module. It lets you run a web site as a program.

Exokit can do everything a browser can do -- except render HTML.

What? Isn't that useless?

Exokit can't render HTML, but it can draw Canvas and WebGL -- natively, and fast -- as well as take keyboard/mouse/mixed reality input with the regular APIs. It's a browser for the post-(2D) world.

Think JSDOM, except it actually runs the DOM in a window. Or think Electron, except 300k and no compile step. Or, think an emulator for running web sites.

The multipmedia parts (e.g. WebGL) are pluggable native modules. Everything else is Javascript. It's pretty easy to experiment and add new Web APIs.

Exokit runs on Android/iOS, as well as Windows, Linux, and macOS.

Examples

What Exokit can do:

• Load any https: site
• Parse a programmatic DOM
• Run any <script>
• Load <image>, <video>, <audio>
• Web Workers
• Canvas 2D
• WebGL
• WebVR
• Gamepad input
• Iframe isolation
• Embed anywhere with node
• Run on Android/iOS
• Run tests
• Power a web bot
• jQuery, if you really want

What Exokit cannot do:

• Render a web page
• CSS
• Interactive HTML forms
• A million legacy APIs
• Security; wrap it in something like Docker

FAQ

Why?

The web is imporant. The most important part of the web is that it's open. The web is not open if you need to be a genius to build a web browser.

Despite modern browsers being nominally open source, their code is impenetrable. You've probably never compiled a web browser, and almost certainly never added things. Despite the amount of time you spend in a browser.

With Exokit, anyone can write some Javascript to control their experience of the web.

Platform support?

Works:

• Android

Planned:

• Windows
• macOS
• iOS
• Linux

The core is Javascript and is platform-agnostic. Porting work is restricted to the native graphics APIs.

Web API support?

• HTTP(S)
• HTML5
• ES7 (whatever Node.js you use)
• DOM
• CanvasRenderingContext2D
• Image tag
• Audio tag
• Video tag
• Keyboard/Mouse events
• WebGL
• WebVR
• Gamepad API
• No HTML layout
• No HTML rendering
• No CSS

Community?

• Slack