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Show HN: Nebula - Cross-Platform Electron Apps and WebSockets

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David here from Mimix. Today, we’re releasing Nebula, an open source scaffold we use to build Electron applications for Linux, Mac, and Windows.

Nebula includes a local web server, WebSocket server, WebSocket client management, Chromium browser, pre-built routing, commanding, and components (AngularJS), JSON navigation & config, Bootstrap UI, and support for custom colors and fonts. You’ll also find stems for Google authentication and protected routes, JSON data from local files and Firebase, and a page and blog-style CMS. There are no dependencies or separate installation steps for any platform.

Most importantly, all these pieces are themselves modular and open source. You can swap out React for AngularJS and use everything else as-is. Or keep our front end and use a different back-end server. Changes to the HTML/JS components don’t require a build step and can be tested in your regular browser.

We put this together because we couldn’t find a working, well-documented way to get all the components together inside a single installable that worked everywhere. The solutions we found were all partial and we spent considerable time getting these parts together and explaining them. We hope Nebula makes it easier for you!

Source: [0] https://github.com/themimixcompany/nebula

Installers: [1] https://github.com/themimixcompany/nebula/releases

Nebula App Documentation: [2] https://mimix.io/nebula-tech/

Builder Documentation: [3] https://github.com/themimixcompany/nebula/blob/master/README...

Nebula Concepts: [4] https://mimix.io/nebula/

Interesting stuff. Congrats on the release. I'm a bit stuck post install as I'm not finding the Hello World but only seeing the local World. It appears that (@WALT Walt Disney) sets the atom in the local world (AFAIK) but (@WALT) doesn't return `Walt Disney` when it's submitted to the Local Mimix. Is that the flow? Set and then Get? mxCommunicator comes back false when I look in the devtools. Is there a first time / tire kicker guide or short example video? Any pointers would be appreciated.

I also just came across it and had the same issue. I haven't decided to whether to get invested in it enough yet to submit a github issue.

Thanks for looking and trying it. When the Hybrid Database that stores MSL ships, we will include the source for it, as well. The next release will let you play with real MSL running against a local Hybrid Database.

Thanks for checking it out and the feedback. Only Local World exists (the HTML page is the "world") but you can easily mod it to use others. The MSL engine is not present in this release and the WebSocket only provides an echo service. So you are right that (@WALT) should return (@WALT Walt Disney) and we will show that in the UI soon. (The backend that makes that happen is almost done.)

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