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

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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:

awrit 'data:text/html;base64,PCFET0NUWVBFIGh0bWw+PGh0bWw+PGhlYWQ+PHN0eWxlPjpyb2
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