polyboard is a web-based tool for typing using other keyboard layouts. It allows you to type as if you were using a layout for a different language, without needing to install or switch keyboard layouts in your system.

It supports:

• Conversion of hardware keyboard input, allowing you to use your real keyboard to type
• A virtual software keyboard, allowing you to type with a touch screen, or to access keys that may not exist on your hardware keyboard
• Dead key support, allowing you to combine accents or other diacritics by pressing the respective dead key combination.
• Support for Shift, Ctrl, Alt, and Caps Lock modifier modes, including support for Shift+CapsLock tertiary layouts in languages that support it.

polyboard does not support layouts that require Input Method Editors (IMEs), such as Pinyin typing.

You can access a live version of polyboard at polyboard.gotloaf.dev

Building

polyboard uses Vite, so building it is as simple as:

npm install
npm run build

The contents of the resulting dist folder can be hosted via any static file hosting solution you prefer, such as Apache or NGINX.