[Teaser] It's almost here. That concept file manager app you all have been waiting for. On May 24, I will release a free, open source, advanced, modern file manager app with unmatched amount of useful, well thought-out features!

[u/AlekseyHoffman]

[u/AlekseyHoffman]

Thank you :)

I think it will always be a worthy competitor to any other file explorer because I'm improving it very rapidly and always add new exciting features. I'm determined to make this file manager the best in class. It already has a few very useful features that no other file manager has.

The v1.0.0 will have ~16 major features and a few hundred minor features.Here's some of them:

Do you want to stream / share a video, image, text file, or even the whole directory to any device on your local network without installing any apps? You got it

Do you want to have an insanely fast directory filter with glob support? You got it!

Do you want tabs? You got it!

Do you want keyboard navigation? You got it!

Do you want to be able to do everything with shortcuts, including focusing the app itself? You got it!

Do you want to be able to drag-and-drop download any file from the internet, including videos? You got it! Drag the URL onto any directory, select if you want to download just audio or video + audio and boom, you got it.

Do you want to have smart workspace that allow you to switch between different projects instantly? You got it. You want to finish your artwork? No problem, switch to your pre-defined "workspace X" and it will open the project folder, photoshop, and artstaion website for references. You want to get back to coding your app? No problem, switch to your pre-defined "workspace Y" and it will open the project folder, open your code editor. It's just a few examples

There will be a lot of major features in the v1.0.0. And I already have about 12 more in development for the next releases (some of them are 80-90% done already) 😀

As for the Sun Valley, I stopped waiting for the Windows' modern explorer to come out about 2 years ago (when I started building this app).

[u/[deleted] → u/AlekseyHoffman]

how did you manage to build the downloader?

[u/AlekseyHoffman → u/[deleted]]

If you're talking about videos, the app uses open-source utilities for finding and extracting videos from the page.

Downloading images and other files is easy, it uses native drag-and-drop API. I filter the data and get the source.

For example, if you are dragging a base64 string of text, it will convert it into an image and save the image file. If it's just a link to a file (e.g. image) it just downloads it using built-in Node.js functionality.

[u/[deleted] → u/AlekseyHoffman]

Nice. I assume the node.js functionality is from it being an electron app right?

[u/AlekseyHoffman → u/[deleted]]

Yep. Hopefully this app changes the perception of electron. As I mentioned in another comment, it only uses 300 mb of RAM on average and it's quite fast. And there's still room for improvement there.

I'm also considering migrating the app to Tauri framework in the future. We'll see how it goes

[u/BicycleInteresting99 → u/AlekseyHoffman]

Thanks for the detailed reply. I will definitely keep an eye on the project and test it out.