Devlog — Day 1 🖥️

Today I started building VasuOS!

What I built

• 🖥️ Desktop
• 📊 Top bar
• 🚀 Floating dock
• 📁 Files window
• 🪟 Close / minimize / maximize
• 🖱️ Window dragging
• ↔️ Window resizing
• 🔒 Window boundaries

What I learned

• How HTML + CSS positioning works
• JavaScript mouse events
• Event listeners
• Basic DOM manipulation
• How window dragging and resizing actually works

Problems 💀

• The legendary ant effect 🐜–Window TPs like a ant when touching mouse pointer
• Text selection while dragging
• Window escaping the screen
• transform causing positioning problems
• A few resize event bugs

Next 🚀

• Polish the window manager
• Improve minimize/maximize
• Add window focus
• Start building the Terminal 💻