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Looking for: Unit Converter (JS) (joshmadison.com)
submitted 1 year ago by TCB13@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Hello,

I'm looking for a unit converter written in JS / client-side only that I can self-host / add to a bunch of tools I already use.

I was looking for a suggestion to get something similar to the good old https://joshmadison.com/convert-for-windows/ but that runs a browser.

Thank you for your suggestions.

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[–] FoxBJK@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That app was the best back in the day!

I’m not aware of a JS equivalent, but it’s something that could be written solo once you get the formulas worked out.

[–] UnrealRealityX@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

back in the day? This post just made me aware of it, and it's great! Less clicks than modern systems and more customizable. And it's portable (one .exe).

This is now added to my portable apps collection!

[–] neoney@lemmy.neoney.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://github.com/tiffany352/rink-rs is pretty cool, but it’s in rust, so you’d have to make some Wasm bindings

[–] neoney@lemmy.neoney.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

o wait, there is a wasm build in the repo! You could probably host their interface too?

https://github.com/tiffany352/rink-rs/tree/master/web

[–] neoney@lemmy.neoney.dev 4 points 1 year ago

You can try it out on https://rinkcalc.app/

[–] leo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cyperchef might not exactly what you are looking for, but it is selfhosted and has some conversion functions.

[–] Unaware7013@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

That looks like a really neat util, and I can't wait to find a docker container to spin that up.

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All you need is wine-wasm (if only it existed) and youre sorted!

[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah! Let's build that :D Maybe it will render UIs better than native wine? :D

[–] bmck@lemmy.bmck.au 1 points 1 year ago

This library looks like it could be a good starting point - https://convert.js.org/

[–] qazwsxedcrfv000@lemmy.unknownsys.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are a number of unit conversion libraries in JavaScript. Building your own is not that hard. A simple SPA shall suffice.

[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

mathjs doesn't provide 1/10 of the units available in convert.exe. It is cool and I use it for other things but it simply doesn't cut it for this.