DeskGap
ChakraCore
DeskGap | ChakraCore | |
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3 | 15 | |
1,824 | 9,034 | |
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0.0 | 5.3 | |
about 3 years ago | 2 days ago | |
C++ | JavaScript | |
MIT License | MIT License |
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DeskGap
- This year in Servo: over 1000 pull requests and beyond
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I've never tried it but DeskGap lets you build a desktop app like Electron, but it uses your existing installed version of Chrome instead of bundling it's own Chrome engine inside the app so it keeps it much more lightweight. Might be interesting for you https://deskgap.com/
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Tauri: An Electron alternative written in Rust
> I kind of wonder why it took this long for someone to try this approach. It just makes a whole lot more sense on the surface.
Like other replies have mentioned, it's not a new idea
DeskGap uses the native OS Webviews. https://github.com/patr0nus/DeskGap/
Electrino (4 years old) was an experiment where they forked Electron and removed Chromium to replace it with the native OS Web views. https://github.com/pojala/electrino
Quark is a fork of Electrino: https://github.com/jscherer92/Quark
There's also a way of building desktop GUIs using Deno, which uses Deno Webview, which is a binding for the same webview library that Tauri uses.
https://denotutorials.net/making-desktop-gui-applications-us...
ChakraCore
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This year in Servo: over 1000 pull requests and beyond
I thought it would be a fun weird project to make Servo work with MS' abandoned JavaScript engine:
https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore
Of course it is written in C++ and you'd probably want a pure Rust browser. But it is sad seeing that fairly complete open source JIT JavaScript engine sit and rot.
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Microsoft defends Edge's predatory practices with cringe reply on X
The JS engine is open source: https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore
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A list of JavaScript engines, runtimes, interpreters
ChakraCore
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Roll your own JavaScript runtime, pt. 3
Not to forget the engine Charka: https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore
The only bit of the old Edge that had its source emancipated. It was/is? quite performant.
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Have you deployed Microsoft Todo to end users? How did you deploy it?
As a Linux user, I very much think Microsoft should have continued Trident and Chakra. Apple also should have continued releasing Safari for Windows. Our web QA setup was entirely built around Macs back then, but it was great to be able to test sites with Safari on Windows, and to have another responsive browser on Win32.
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The Javascript Engine
Edge was initially using Chakra but has been rebuilt using Chromium and the V8 engine.
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Crystal's Interpreter (2021)
https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore/wiki/Architecture-...
I've found the source code to be quite readable too - albeit from a bug-finding perspective, not a strictly pedagogical one.
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Exploring React Native’s new architecture
Furthermore, the new architecture decouples the JavaScript interface from the engine, enabling the use of other JavaScript engines such as Hermes, V8, or Chakra.
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How web browsers work - executing the Javascript (part 5, with illustrations)💻🌠
ChakraCore
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Enumerating and analyzing 40 non-V8 JavaScript implementations
I am astonished at the omission of ChakraCore, open sourced by Microsoft but sadly abandoned by them after they switched Edge to Chromium: https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore. But it looks like it’s still chugging along as a community effort rather than being completely abandoned.
What are some alternatives?
neutralinojs - Portable and lightweight cross-platform desktop application development framework
Jint - Javascript Interpreter for .NET
memoryjs - Read and write process memory in Node.js (Windows API functions exposed via Node bindings)
hermes - A JavaScript engine optimized for running React Native.
wry - Cross-platform WebView library in Rust for Tauri.
V8 - The official mirror of the V8 Git repository
graderjs - 💦 Turn your full-stack NodeJS application into a downloadable cross-platform binary. Also works for SPAs, or regular web-sites.
v8.dev - The source code of v8.dev, the official website of the V8 project.
Wails - Create beautiful applications using Go
AutoHotkey-jk - AutoHotkey, running JavaScript.
revery - :zap: Native, high-performance, cross-platform desktop apps - built with Reason!
astexplorer - A web tool to explore the ASTs generated by various parsers.