we need a way to access locally running web apps without doing an ugly http://localhost:8022 and having to remember that.

I'd say http://localapps should give an overview of all web apps running locally, with links to them. Those links should follow a naming scheme where the hostname ends with `.local` or smth.

So: http://claudecode.local

Definitely not weightless. So much bloat has been dedicated to various frameworks for it, and modern browsers are notorious for how much RAM they require. I'm particularly reminded of this each time I try to visit websites on one of my older Raspberry Pis. You are just pushing much of that complexity and overhead to the client.

That same Pi won't even blink at a local TUI.

Are you insane?

No just ignorant most likely. I can see how a child might think that an http/html session qualifies as providing all the same utility of a tty. Well it does not remotely by orders of magnitude.

I already said in the comment to begin with: "The closest you could say is web/electron, which is gross on all counts."