In-browser companion

[shykes]

It would be neat if dagger could optionally launch a companion webapp to monitor and configure an environment. This companion webapp would not implement a specific feature, but rather provide a platform for delivering various features that are more appropriate for a web environment. This would allow the CLI to focus on what it does best, and relax the requirement to do absolutely everything in a POSIX terminal, which is very challenging.

In short: if dagger always has access to 2 modes of user interface, terminal and browser, it can deliver a better user experience than with only one of them.

Examples of products following this pattern:

• Streamlit
• VueCLI

Examples of possible in-browser features:

• Interactive configuration forms generated from cue spec. We had this feature in the Blocklayer SaaS beta: it is very nice!
• Visual DAG representation
• Interactive CUE sandbox
• Log streaming and search

[verdverm]

VueCLI is an excellent example of this

[shykes]

I will check it out, thanks!