What are the plans for being able to run the server within UXP? Is that in any roadmap?

I mean both. I want websocket server and also the possibility to serve files from localhost.

Having a WebView host local HTML/JS files would be very, very nice indeed…

Exactly… now I have to run external process and I can’t even pass parameters to it (so far). I think with server in UXP I could eliminate one more scripting context making it simpler.

I have been hoping for this as well.

Webview hosting local HTML should be available with v8.0.

That sounds like moving in right direction. One of my clients has a plugin to show instructions for designers and sometimes it comes as a PDF or HTML file with pictures… so it could address at least this need. Will be there some option to inject custom JS from UXP into webview? I used inject JS to …

what great news, @indranil , when will it be available? Because if I’m not mistaken, we are currently at version 7.3. Also, is it possible to see a roadmap somewhere?

This should be availabe with UXP v8.0 so you should see this in Photoshop probably around April…though don’t quote me on that :sweat_smile: !

Just checking…Any update on this? Is there somewhere we can see the latest beta changelog? The latest I can find is Photoshop Beta 25.5 (February 2024) but we seem to be on 25.11 now.

UXP v8.0 is not yet integrated in Photoshop and should hopefully be available in the August release.

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justin2taylor January 16, 2025, 7:23pm 22

I made a new request here with some more use-cases for http/https server than just Webview:

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