Ask HN: How do you build a windowing system in the browser?

2 points by kweinber 6y ago ↗ HN

Synology Diskstation DSM is an entire Finder interface in Javascript complete with a windowing system. I've never seen anything like it in a browser. How would someone build something like that? Are there frameworks or go-to libraries you would start with?

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tenken 6y ago ↗

https://www.sitepoint.com/community/t/tool-to-make-a-full-gu...

Synology uses EXTjs

actionowl 6y ago ↗

I've seen jQuery UI extended (by creating custom jQuery UI "widgets" that extend the base widgets) to basically mimic a desktop experience complete with window resize/minimize/maximize.

I don't have a link handy to that extension but it was built on: https://jqueryui.com/dialog/ and https://api.jqueryui.com/jQuery.widget/