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+## Simple tool to quickly run Karax applications. Generates the HTML
+## required to run a Karax app and opens it in a browser.
+
+import os, strutils, parseopt, browsers
+
+const
+  html = """
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html>
+<head><title>$1</title></head>
+<body id="body">
+<div id="ROOT" />
+<script type="text/javascript" src="$1.js"></script>
+</body>
+</html>
+"""
+
+proc exec(cmd: string) =
+  if os.execShellCmd(cmd) != 0:
+    quit "External command failed: " & cmd
+
+proc main =
+  var op = initOptParser()
+  let rest = op.cmdLineRest
+  var file = ""
+  while true:
+    op.next()
+    case op.kind
+    of cmdLongOption, cmdShortOption: discard
+    of cmdArgument: file = op.key
+    of cmdEnd: break
+
+  if file.len == 0: quit "filename expected"
+  let name = file.splitFile.name
+  createDir("nimcache")
+  exec("nim js --out:nimcache/" & name & ".js " & rest)
+  let dest = "nimcache" / name & ".html"
+  writeFile(dest, html % name)
+  openDefaultBrowser(dest)
+
+main()