🧘 Fast, open-source and privacy-focused browser built on top of Electron.
Pulse is a browser built on top of Electron, Svelte and Vite. The main goal of this project is to understand how these technologies work together and learn about them.
Mainly because I am always trying new apps (i.e. Ghostty). In terms of browsers, there is not much to choose from, from modern browsers we have Arc (WHY I NEED TO LOG IN), Vivaldi (prioritizes webpage hot keys over browser hot keys 😔) and Zen (really cool, but firefox 🥶).
So, why not doing my own browser? 🤔 Well, I am not going to fork Chromium or Firefox, that is a lot of work and low-level programming. I was curious about Electron, web technologies and used by a lot of cool apps like Discord, Notion, Obsidian, Dropbox,etc.. I found that it uses Chromium inside, so I only need to focus on the browser itself.
Well, pretty known, well maintained and it is really fast, so why not? I am using it for the interface of the browser, so speed is a must. It does not uses a virtual DOM, I can ensure it is fast.
Is fast and really powerful, also there is this package electron-vite that helps to integrate Vite with Electron, and support TypeScript.
So... You want to help? See TODO.md for current bugs,refactors and feats, but feel free to do what you want.
$ nvm use$ bun install$ bun run dev# For windows
$ bun run build:win
# For macOS
$ bun run build:mac
# For Linux
$ bun run build:linux