Cobalt

A new minimal yet powerful proxy site built for users and developers.

View the censored web like never before with this new web proxy service in React supporting many sites. Third place winner for TN's 2023 Proxathon.

Features

• Simple clean design
• Side panel for quick access to anything, anywhere
• Extremely customizable
• Massive library of themes
• Star your favorite sites
• View you browsing history
• Extensions
• Devtools (Eruda)

Setup

Run

Run npm start to start a webserver and the Bare server. You may deploy Cobalt by using an external bare server and a static file host. Cobalt must be built before attempting to start.

Build

Run npm run build to build the app for production to the build folder.

Development

Run npm run dev to run the app in development mode.

Deploy

Click a button at the top of this page and follow the directions for an easy way to host Cobalt.

Configuration

Obfuscation

File: /src/consts.js

const obfuscation = true | false; - Choose to obfuscate text

GitHub and Discord

File: /src/consts.js

const github = "string"; - Update the Github links

const discord = "string"; - Update the Discord link

Bare Server

File: /public/uv/uv.config.js

bare: url, - Ultraviolet bare server

Goal

My goal for Cobalt was to make a proxy site that is very simple and easy to use, with only a side panel instead of pages, which you could access on any site. Along with having it be simple and easy to use, I also wanted it to have many configuration options and an extension system where the community could build unique tools to help you better use the web.

I will continue to work on Cobalt, and I hope to achieve everything I want in this project.

Overall it turned out very well, and if I were to choose a web proxy to use, I would select Cobalt!

To Do

• Reading mode extension
• Popup for how to use Cobalt on the first load
• Keyboard shortcuts (reload, back, forward, favorite)
• Have real components and not everything in one file
• Blocklist with custom blocked page
• Syntax highlighting for view-source: (make it work with the theme)
• Make Monaco Editor use style
• Update iframe on custom style change
• Section to change headers sent to the site on the proxy (eg. user-agent)
• Share button
• Dashboard with widgets
• Make Ultraviolet take less space
• URL option for cloaking
• Update iframe on custom style change
• Suggestions for home page
• Games

License

Cobalt uses the MIT license.