# NomadNet Web UI [Preview]

_General · started by Zenith on Thu, Oct 22, 2026 4:10 PM_

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## Original post

**Zenith** · Thu, Oct 22, 2026 4:10 PM

I'm working on developing out the web UI functionality for NomadNet that currently exists as a placeholder as an alternative to the text-based Urwid TUI. 

It is lightweight with zero added dependencies. There is no NPM, bloated build process, or framework. The frontend is a single HTML page and one JS file that runs from a stdlib Python HTTP server inside the nomadnet package. It reuses all of the NomadNet internals where applicable.  The onnly vendored files are micron-parser-js DOMPurify and an included mono NerdFont.

It generates its own certificate on first start and wraps the listening socket with the standard library's ssl module

Below is a preview, some parts aren't functional yet:

## Browser
![image.png](/storage/forum/hNwnNZH3PZSAIRu2ZDpzh8Riz724SS5Dx2tg52Kx.png)
![image.png](/storage/forum/ZhcgAlBIDPCJKTL1RYY0v6cN3ra8ej0qUpZ5bLWX.png)
"Terminal" theme:
![image.png](/storage/forum/swGr2iSR03xelpp9FLuJ860Yqx7PyD6kDf8rzCmJ.png)

TABS!!!! (And the option to zoom)
![image.png](/storage/forum/VPHLSxHipZMwVTTELxDwvauWGxUtDCqPhRcWynNW.png)

## Conversations
![image.png](/storage/forum/o7ku8lRYqn0PiNMrsFzIp7bxQKcIUEqLsiu6UyMt.png)

Email-style view:
![image.png](/storage/forum/46dz4vBkkYENiHGkOqi7DgTeaxNhy2iZTDTufv1w.png)

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## Reply 1

**morbo** · Thu, Oct 22, 2026 5:59 PM

This looks amazing, can't wait to start using it!

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## Reply 2

**Mark** · Thu, Oct 22, 2026 8:21 PM

Oh, this is **very** nice Zenith! Really looking forward to trying this out! Really cool you took this up!

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