Terminal Inspired, Clean and Customizable Browser Start Page

For a long time I wanted to create my own start page looking like my terminal, so here it is! It includes my common bookmarks where I can search through them with my terminal-inspired prompt.

There are multiple ways to customize it, so be sure to check out the repository and wiki page page for customization options.

Demo

• You can check the working version from here
• You can pull the Docker image from here

Features

• Quickly filter links by typing in the prompt. Hitting Enter will open all filtered links at once
• If nothing filtered, the text in prompt will use the default search engine for searching your input
• Launch websites directly from the prompt. Just type the URL (ie. github.com)
• Search websites with custom commands. For example, type s some weird bug to search StackOverflow for some weird bug
• Multiple ways to customize the start page to your liking

Built-In Commands

• Show usage with help command (shows basic usage and your configured search shortcuts)
• Show info with fetch command (time, date, system and browser data)
• Update your configuration with config command
  • config import <url> - Import configuration from a URL to your local storage
  • config edit - Edit local configuration within editor
  • config reset - Reset your configuration to default

Key Bindings

• Clear the prompt quickly with CTRL + C
• Close window with ESC

Customization

There are multiple ways of customizing the start page to making it yours!

• Use config edit to edit your configuration within the start page code editor
• Use config import <url> to import configuration from a URL
• Change the default configuration in startpage.config.js file and deploy your own version

Please refer to wiki page for more information.

Comments

[NLxDoDge]

Maybe as a cool feature add a add category name url icon_name, delete name or something and store all the things on the localstorage? So you don't have to add/remove code in order to update it?

To be fair it looks cool, and I once made something like this as well. But the firefox default new page favorites was just to good to pass on for 😋

But I like the CLI part of you project, that's really neat!

[Can Cellek]

Hey mate, I did some attempts for your suggestion but it felt so slow to fill the stuff. So, I decided to make an editor to configure the default configuration easily. Also, created a Docker image, so if you want to try it out it would be easier. Just wanted to thank you for the feedback, it feels more complete now ^^

[Can Cellek]

Thanks for the feedback, it is indeed an easy way to customize local configurations using the project url instead of getting too technical.

Someone on github asked for a docker container to run it locally. I was thinking about a container for local instances and a new command to import json data to override the default settings. This feature will require some cookies anyway to store configurations, so I can make more custom functions to add / remove and update entries from terminal.

Until I start working on this, I am planning some improvements first, which may change the data structure for configuration and break the configuration files of users. But I can say that project will go towards being more accessable

Thanks again for the feedback, I really appreciate it!

EDIT: If you want, you can open a feature request for it from github.com/excalith/excalith-start...

[Mario Stopfer]

Yup its cool, keep it up!

[Can Cellek]

Thanks mate, really appreciate it!

[Polyrux]

As someone who can edit html but doesnt know a lick of code, I feel like even following the fork instructions line by line I am too ignorant to get this working. Is there an ELI5 explanation on getting this started anywhere?