Open Design WebUI

A browser-based, no-Electron distribution of Open Design.
Launch it from a terminal, use it in your browser — no desktop app to install.

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What is this?

Open Design WebUI is a fork of Open Design that ships only the WebUI form factor. The upstream project also builds Electron desktop apps and installers; this fork strips all of that away and keeps a single, clean distribution:

• A local daemon + web server that you start from a terminal.
• You use the whole product in an ordinary browser at http://127.0.0.1:7456.
• No Electron, no installer, no auto-updater — just extract an archive and run one script.

This is convenient for servers, headless machines, remote/SSH workflows, containers, and anyone who would rather open a browser tab than install a desktop app.

Download

Grab the archive for your platform from the latest release:

Platform	File
Linux x64	…-linux-x64.tar.gz
macOS (Apple Silicon)	…-mac-arm64.zip
macOS (Intel)	…-mac-x64.zip
Windows x64	…-win-x64.zip

Download from the Releases page (raw .tar.gz / .zip), not from the Actions Artifacts page — GitHub always re-wraps workflow artifacts in an extra .zip.

Quick start

Requirement: Node.js 24 on your PATH (node --version → v24.x). The archive bundles everything else; it uses your system Node instead of shipping its own.

Linux / macOS

tar -xzf open-design-*-linux-x64.tar.gz     # or unzip on macOS
cd <extracted-folder>
chmod +x open-design.sh                       # macOS zips may drop the exec bit
./open-design.sh

macOS users can also just double-click Open Design WebUI.command.

Windows

Unzip the archive, then double-click Open Design WebUI.bat — or from a terminal in the extracted folder run open-design.cmd.

Then open http://127.0.0.1:7456 in your browser. The web UI is served on port 7456; the daemon runs on 7457 and is reverse-proxied under /api, so the browser only ever needs the one address.

Stop it with ./open-design.sh stop (Linux/macOS) or open-design.cmd stop (Windows).

Versioning

Releases follow the scheme open-design-v<upstream>-webui-v<fork>, e.g. open-design-v0.15.1-webui-v0.2:

• open-design-v0.15.1 — the upstream Open Design version this build is based on.
• webui-v0.2 — this fork's own iteration number.

Build from source

corepack enable                 # selects the pinned pnpm
pnpm install
# Build a WebUI package for a target platform/arch:
pnpm tools-pack webui build --platform linux --arch x64
# → produces open-design-webui-<version>-linux-x64.tar.gz

Supported --platform: mac · win · linux. Supported --arch: x64 · arm64.

For local development (daemon + web with hot reload) use the upstream lifecycle tooling:

pnpm tools-dev run web --daemon-port 17456 --web-port 17573

Credits & license

This project is a downstream packaging fork of Open Design by nexu-io. All product features, design systems, skills, and templates come from upstream — this fork only changes how it is packaged and distributed. Please star and support the upstream project.

Licensed under Apache-2.0, the same as upstream. See LICENSE.