Why we rebuilt the Web Desktop as a modular Nuxt framework (opens in new tab)

Most "web desktop" or "portfolio OS" projects on GitHub are structured as templates. They look great, but the moment you want to add a custom application, swap out the file system, or customize the window behaviors, you find yourself hacking directly into someone else's monolithic codebase. It's a DX nightmare of spaghetti styling and tightly-coupled state. We decided to build Open Web Desktop (OWD) to solve this. OWD is a wip modular framework built natively on top of the Nuxt 4 and Vue 3 ec...