React XP

An authentic recreation of Windows XP, created using React and Typescript.

Features

• Functional Taskbar and Start Menu
• Movable Desktop Icons
• Movable & resizable windows
• Login Screen
• Notepad
• Browsable File Explorer with back and forward functionality
• Internet Explorer with Wayback Machine implementation for period accurate web browsing.
• Run can open applications and Folders, either by internal appId, or title. URLs will also open in Internet Explorer.

Roadmap

This is an ongoing project, with many more features I’d like to include in the future, here are some of them:

• Theme and User customisation
• Clippy
• MSN Messenger
• Solitaire
• Shutdown and boot up sequences
• Sounds

Demo

https://react-xp.jamiepates.com/

Local Installation

git clone https://github.com/Cyanoxide/react-xp.git
cd react-xp/frontend/
npm install
npm run dev

Then open http://localhost:5174 in your browser.

Support & Contribution

If you like the project and wish to support it, consider sharing the project online or donating here: https://ko-fi.com/cyanoxide