wede
Part of Vulos
Part of the Vulos OS suite

Your IDE.
On your machine.

A self-hosted, collaborative web IDE in a single Go binary.

wede serves a full collaborative web IDE straight from your machine — no cloud, no Docker, no database. One host serves many people: open projects as workspaces, invite others with share links, edit the same files with multiplayer cursors, share terminals, and talk in per-workspace chat.

~10 MBsingle binary
25+languages
0external deps
MITopen source
localhost:9090 — wede
wede IDE — file tree, Go source open in the editor, and the top workspace bar wede IDE in the Midnight theme

Everything included

Everything in one binary

Self-hostable, open source, and built to run anywhere — a laptop, a NAS, a Pi, or a VPS.

Real-time collaboration

Multi-user editing with multiplayer cursors and presence, CRDT-backed via pure-Go reearth/ygo (Yjs-compatible). See who is in a workspace and which file they are viewing.

Workspaces & share links

Open many projects on one host and switch between them. Mint invite links scoped to editor or viewer roles — tokens hashed at rest, constant-time compare, revocable.

VS Code-grade git

A visual commit graph with branches and merges, blame, side-by-side and per-hunk staging, cherry-pick / revert / reset / merge, tags, stash, and conflict resolution.

Shared terminals

Full PTY terminals via xterm.js — multiple dockable or floating windows per workspace, shared live with collaborators. Run shells, SSH, Docker, anything.

LSP & DAP, extensible

gopls, typescript-language-server, pylsp and rust-analyzer built in; add any language server or debug adapter through config — no recompile, no marketplace.

One single binary

Go embeds the entire React frontend into one ~10 MB file. Workspace chat, a Postman-style API client, project-wide search and a sovereign relay agent are all included.

A visual tour

A real IDE, in the browser

CodeMirror 6, 25+ languages, and the panels you expect — captured against a live demo workspace. These shots follow your theme.

wede visual git commit graph wede git graph, Midnight theme
Git graph — visual branch / merge DAG
wede project search wede search, Midnight theme
Search — ripgrep, regex & replace
wede command palette wede command palette, Midnight theme
Command palette — fuzzy everything
wede web terminal wede terminal, Midnight theme
Terminal — full PTY over WebSocket
wede built-in API client wede API client, Midnight theme
API client — Postman-style, saved to disk
wede workspace chat wede chat, Midnight theme
Chat — per-workspace conversation
wede settings wede settings, Midnight theme
Settings — themes, LSP, editor prefs
wede built-in browser preview wede browser preview, Midnight theme
Preview — built-in browser tab

Built to share

Built for people working together

One host, many collaborators — with the guardrails to share safely.

Multiplayer editing that just works

Open a project and share a link. Everyone edits the same files at once with live cursors and presence, backed by a CRDT so changes merge without conflicts. Share links carry a role — editor or viewer — so you decide who can write and who can only watch.

Tokens are hashed at rest, compared in constant time, and revocable at any moment.

CRDT · reearth/ygolive cursorsrole-scoped links
wede editor with a project open and the file tree expanded wede editor, Midnight theme

Git you can actually see

A visual commit graph renders branches and merges as an SVG DAG. Stage per hunk, write commits, blame lines, and cherry-pick, revert, reset, merge, tag, or stash — with real conflict resolution when histories diverge.

commit graphper-hunk stagingblameconflict resolution
wede git panel showing a visual commit graph wede git graph, Midnight theme

Shared terminals, dockable or floating

Full PTY terminals over WebSocket bring real shells into the browser — run builds, SSH, or Docker. Dock them in a panel or float them as movable windows over the editor; in a shared workspace, positions sync to every collaborator.

xterm.js PTYfloating windowssynced layout
wede with floating terminal windows over the editor wede floating terminals, Midnight theme

Two ways in

Install & run wede

Every wede instance is one process you run yourself — no sign-up, no managed backend, no telemetry. Compile it from source or grab the installer, point it at a folder, and you're editing in under a minute.

One binary on your machine — every collaborator just opens a browser tab and gets live cursors.
Recommended

Build from source

git clone https://github.com/vul-os/wede.git
cd wede && npm install
npm run build:all  # → ./wede (frontend embedded)

# set a real password before you start it
cp wede.config.example.json wede.config.json

./wede /path/to/your/project
# open http://localhost:9090 and log in

Requires Go 1.25+ and Node.js 18+. You compile the binary yourself — nothing to trust but the source.

Convenience

One-line installer

curl -fsSLO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vul-os/wede/main/install.sh
less install.sh   # review before running anything piped from the internet
bash install.sh   # prints a generated password, then:

wede /path/to/your/project
# open http://localhost:9090 and log in

wede is community-maintained: a matching release for your OS/arch isn't guaranteed, and the script performs no checksum verification. Read it before you run it — or build from source instead.

  1. 1Get the binaryBuild from source or run the installer above.
  2. 2ConfigureSet a password in wede.config.json — or let the installer generate one.
  3. 3Run./wede /path/to/project — binds to 127.0.0.1:9090 by default.
  4. 4Open & log inVisit localhost:9090 and sign in with your password.

First steps

Your first five minutes in wede

Once you're logged in, here's the tour — the same panels you'd expect from a desktop IDE, all running from the binary you just started.

wede file explorer and editor with a Go file open wede file explorer and editor, Midnight theme
1

Explore & edit

Browse the file tree, click into any file, and start typing — CodeMirror 6 with 25+ languages and auto-save.

wede terminal panel running a shell wede terminal panel, Midnight theme
2

Open a terminal

A full PTY shell right inside the browser. Dock it in a panel or float it as its own window.

Ctrl + `
wede visual git commit graph wede git graph, Midnight theme
3

Review & commit

Stage per hunk, write a commit, and watch the branch graph update live.

wede project-wide search panel wede search panel, Midnight theme
4

Search everything

Workspace-wide search with ripgrep, regex, and replace across files.

Ctrl + Shift + F
wede command palette wede command palette, Midnight theme
5

Run any command

Fuzzy-search every IDE command — save, git actions, theme switch, logout.

Ctrl + Shift + P
wede per-workspace chat wede chat, Midnight theme
6

Invite a collaborator

Mint a share link, watch their cursor appear, and talk it through in workspace chat.

Read the full walkthrough in the docs →

Honest about trust — private by default

wede binds to 127.0.0.1 and your code never leaves your machine. Every mutating and shell route is gated by role, so viewer links are always read-only. wede is candid that an editor link grants a real host shell — treat those like SSH keys. Expose it on your LAN, embed it in Vulos OS, or tunnel it through your own sovereign relay only when you choose to.

Read the security model →

Part of Vulos

Vulos is an open, self-hostable web OS and its owned apps. wede runs perfectly standalone — and embeds as a first-class app in the Vulos OS shell, alongside Ofisi, Files, Relay, and llmux, with routing and auth handled for you.

Explore Vulos →

Bring your IDE home.

Download one binary, point it at a folder, and share the link. That's the whole setup.