Emc² showcase site

One screen for the Emc² desktop mail client: the headline and download button on the left, and on the right the mail providers the app connects to, drawn around the app itself and joined by lines with a dot running inward along each one.

It is a Lakebed capsule with no app npm dependencies. server/index.ts serves public star and download counts without sign-in, and Tailwind classes compile from client/index.tsx.

Download count

The website sums GitHub's download_count across .exe, .dmg and .AppImage assets in all published releases, including both Mac architectures and older app versions. Source archives, checksums and update metadata are excluded. Counts describe downloads, not unique users or successful installations.

The server follows release pagination, shares concurrent reads and caches results for ten minutes. Failed or invalid responses retain the last complete count; before any successful read, the count stays hidden. This cache resets when the server restarts. Outbound fetch requires a claimed Lakebed deployment.

Run the focused check from the repository root with node --test scripts/website-downloads.test.mjs. Build the website from this directory with npx lakebed build --target claimed.

Provider marks

shared/providers.ts holds the marks for Gmail, iCloud Mail, Proton Mail, Zoho Mail, HEY and Mail.com, taken from Simple Icons (CC0). The app reaches each of them with Google OAuth or its Custom IMAP path. Regenerate or extend the file by fetching https://cdn.simpleicons.org/<slug> and copying the d attribute and fill into an entry.

The line-and-dot connectors follow the tracing-beam pattern Col verifies in Aceternity UI, reimplemented in Preact with SVG animateMotion because a capsule cannot import npm components.

Screenshots

assets/inbox.jpg and assets/settings.jpg are the demo-mail captures used for the showcase images shared in chat. Nothing imports them, so they do not affect the deployed bundle.