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about 3 years ago | 7 days ago | |
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MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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DeskGap
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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...
wry
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Building Apps with Tauri and Elixir
The biggest benefits we derived from Tauri were Wry and the sidecar mechanism. Wry (the second half of Tauri: tao/wry) is a cross-platform WebView rendering library in Rust that supports all major desktop platforms like Windows, macOS, and Linux. It essentially spins up a native web view from whatever operating system it’s running on and doesn’t require an application to bundle one with it. Wry greatly reduces the overhead of “pushing” a browser to our users, instead leaning on the host OS to handle rendering a web view. This made our applications really lean.
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Octos – HTML live wallpaper engine
Check out https://tauri.app/ - specifically, https://github.com/tauri-apps/wry, which provides a cross-platform interface to the system's WebView.
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Building a Slack/Discord Alternative with Tauri/Rust
Tauri uses WebkitGTK, which has pretty bad performance compared to other browsers on the same hardware.
https://github.com/tauri-apps/wry/issues/890#issuecomment-14...
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Developing a Desktop Application via Rust and NextJS. The Tauri Way.
One small note regarding Native Webview meant above. You can find ultimate information on this topic here. In a nutshell, Tauri applications use as HTML renderer Webkit (safari engine) on MacOS, Microsoft Edge WebView2 on Windows, and WebKitGTK on Linux (port of Webkit for Linux). Pay attention to the fact that a Tauri application could behave differently on different platforms according to the information above.
- QUESTION | How to use drag event in a Tauri app
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Hey! TS dev looking for Rust project to begin.
wry looks like a better choice, but no one has bothered to work on this task, yet.
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How to embed a web Browser in a GUI application
I think this might be somewhat close to what you're looking for: https://github.com/tauri-apps/wry
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Tauri now supports Android/iOS in the 2.0 branch!
They're wrapping the Android webkit/webview stuff in wry and creating an activity for it. I imagine they've already achieved or are close to achieving full parity API-wise to proper Tauri desktop apps.
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NextJS app on the desktop
Another way to approach it is to wrap the web app in a webview and use Tauri for custom logic, see https://github.com/tauri-apps/wry. You'd need to teach yourself some Rust though. I'm sure you could achieve something similar with Express. The performance will be similar to using a browser so not terrible.
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Building a Pomodoro Timer with Tauri using React and Vite
It uses the WebView that the underlying OS provides to render the application’s UI — this is one of the reasons why the application binaries are smaller (as compared to electron). The WRY library from the Tauri toolkit provides a unified interface to interact with WebViews provided by different operating systems. The WRY library uses the Tao crate for cross-platform window management.
What are some alternatives?
neutralinojs - Portable and lightweight cross-platform desktop application development framework
tauri - Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.
memoryjs - Read and write process memory in Node.js (Windows API functions exposed via Node bindings)
webview - Tiny cross-platform webview library for C/C++. Uses WebKit (GTK/Cocoa) and Edge WebView2 (Windows).
graderjs - 💦 Turn your full-stack NodeJS application into a downloadable cross-platform binary. Also works for SPAs, or regular web-sites.
Ultralight - Lightweight, high-performance HTML renderer for game and app developers.
revery - :zap: Native, high-performance, cross-platform desktop apps - built with Reason!
qtwebkit - Code in this repository is obsolete. Use this fork: https://github.com/movableink/webkit
Wails - Create beautiful applications using Go
webrender - A GPU-based renderer for the web
Servo - Servo, the embeddable, independent, memory-safe, modular, parallel web rendering engine