This weeks update for Aspen! One goal of ours at Aspen is to make developing apps for your Aspen PC super easy. So easy, that we didn’t even want you to have to download any dev tools (or even Node.js)! We got our whole developer experience (including transpiling and bundling your Typescript) to run in the browser. Here’s a 2min video of me showing how it works. For context, “agents” are what we call the backend apps that run on your Aspen PC that you can create yourself or install our app store. Here is the runtime code that we adapted to run in the browser (previously ran just on the server).

This is really cool! FileSystem API is a great addition to browsers and will enable so many lightweight and local-first apps that just run in the browser like this one. Is my assumption correct, that you’re using (for now only Chrome’s) File System Access API? How do you watch for file changes?