side-by-side

name	side-by-side
description	Turn the workbench's side-by-side panel on or off — a resizable pane next to the terminal that loads any URL in an iframe, useful for watching a dev server or another openhost app while you work. Use when the user asks to enable/disable/toggle the side panel, split view, side-by-side view, preview pane, or asks to see a web page next to the terminal.

Side-by-side panel

Off by default. See the "Side-by-side panel" section of /app/README.md (this repo's README.md, baked into the image) for what it is, the controls, and where the setting is stored.

Toggling it

# on  (use false to turn it off)
curl -sS -X POST "http://127.0.0.1:${PORT:-5000}/api/ui/settings" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"side_panel": true}'

# current state
curl -sS "http://127.0.0.1:${PORT:-5000}/api/ui/settings"

Each call returns the settings as saved, e.g. {"side_panel": true}.

Then tell the user to reload the page

The panel is wired in when / is served, so the change lands on the next load, not the current one. Say so explicitly — otherwise it looks like nothing happened. Reloading is safe: terminals live server-side, so the page re-attaches to the running session and replays its scrollback.

Worth mentioning if it comes up

• Hiding the pane with × is per-browser and is not the same as turning the feature off here.
• Sites sending X-Frame-Options: DENY or a restrictive frame-ancestors won't render in the iframe. That's their choice and can't be worked around; the ↗ button opens the URL in a real tab instead.