iced_taffy VS taffy

Compare iced_taffy vs taffy and see what are their differences.

iced_taffy

Library for using Taffy layout with the Iced GUI framework. It currently provides a single Grid component for 2D grid layout. (by nicoburns)

taffy

A high performance rust-powered UI layout library (by DioxusLabs)
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iced_taffy taffy
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4.4 8.6
12 months ago 7 days ago
Rust Rust
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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iced_taffy

Posts with mentions or reviews of iced_taffy. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-12.
  • Taffy 0.3: UI layout in Rust, now with css-grid!
    10 projects | /r/rust | 12 Feb 2023
    Yeah, that's my crate (https://github.com/nicoburns/iced_taffy). It'll be seeing more attention now that the grid work is finally released, but it'll probably require the next Taffy release in order to be releasable to crates.io.
  • Announcing concoct! A cross-platform native UI framework (formerly viewbuilder)
    5 projects | /r/rust | 5 Feb 2023
    Yeah, that can definitely be a problem. I think Iced gets around this by type erasing children using Into and storing children in a Vec. This ends up with view definition code that is not dissimilar to Concoct. Although it a little more verbose. See for example my iced_taffy experiment: https://github.com/nicoburns/iced_taffy/blob/main/examples/nested.rs
  • What do people use for simple UI projects?
    4 projects | /r/rust | 2 Feb 2023
    I've been working on more powerful layout (Flexbox and CSS Grid) for Iced based on Taffy. It's going to be a while until it's production ready as it has required relatively significant changes to Taffy to allow it to integrate with Iced, but if you're willing to live on the bleeding edge then there's an experimental CSS Grid widget available here: https://github.com/nicoburns/iced_taffy

taffy

Posts with mentions or reviews of taffy. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-21.
  • Show HN: Dropflow, a CSS layout engine for node or <canvas>
    15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Mar 2024
    I agree, I think there has to be something compilable to WebAssembly.

    A web search shows something that's written in Rust: https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy?tab=readme-ov-file#taffy

    15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Mar 2024
    I maintain a standalone web layout engine[0] (currently implementing Flexbox and CSS Grid) which has no scripting support. WPT layout tests using is a major blocker to us running WPT tests against our library. Yoga (used by React Native) is in a similar position.<p>Do you think the WPT would accept pull requests replacing such tests with equivalent tests that don't use <script> (perhaps using a build script to generate multiple tests instead - or simply writing out the tests longhand)?<p>I could run against only the ref-tests, but if I can't get full coverage then the WPT seems to provide little value over our own test suite.<p>[0]: <a href="https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy">https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy</a>
  • CSS for Printing to Paper
    15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Mar 2024
    > Is there any easy to use/hack HTML layouting engine where I could experiment with custom CSS attributes and bridge that gap? Would anything from Servo be suitable?

    Servo could be used for this. You'd want to add support for parsing the CSS properties themselves to the style crate in https://github.com/servo/stylo and then the layout implementation to the layout2020 crate in https://github.com/servo/servo. You do effectively get a whole browser though.

    I'm currently working on building a lighter weight / hackable layout engine based on a combination of https://github.com/servo/stylo (for css parsing and selector resolution), https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy (for box-level layout) and https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-text (for flow/inline layout). I expect to have something decent in around 6 months

    Neither of these setups currently have any support for pagination though.

  • I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Sep 2023
    I maintain a web layout library that is designed to be integrated into other software:

    https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy

    It needs to be combined with a text layout engine (such as https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-text), and it doesn't support everything yet (notable features that are currently missing: "float", "display: inline-block", "box-sizing: content-box", "position: static"). But we have Block, Flexbox and CSS Grid support with more on the way.

    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Sep 2023
    Would you consider using some libraries in your project? There are lots of good ones in the Rust ecosystem, and many of them are not part of any existing browsers.

    For example:

    - https://github.com/servo/html5ever (HTML parsing - note: this is used in Servo)

    - https://github.com/parcel-bundler/lightningcss (CSS parsing)

    - https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy (web layout)

    - https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-text (text layout and rendering)

    Obviously you should be free to work on whatever you like, but just as a benchmark on the scope of your project: I spent ~6 months implementing just the CSS Grid algorithm in Taffy last year. An entire browser from literal scratch is probably a 10 year project for one person.

  • Looking for this. html + css rendering through wgpu.
    14 projects | /r/rust | 3 Jul 2023
    All of these projects have in common that they use Taffy (the project that I work on!) for box-level layout (which currently gives them block, flexbox, and grid layout) , and are either using or planning to use cosmic-text for text/inline layout. This gives you a decent first approximation of web layout, but it's not perfect and there are major features like float, display: inline-block, position: static, box-sizing: content-box missing. Not to mention that none of these implementations currently resolve CSS selectors, so you are effectively limited to inline styles (if you're interested in something in that direction then you may be interested in https://github.com/vizia/vizia).
    14 projects | /r/rust | 3 Jul 2023
    If you were to implement this yourself, i'd look into either swash or cosmic-text for the text rendering stack (this is one of the things you really don't want to write from the ground up). For accessibility, AccessKit has quickly become the standard for communicating with crossplatform accessibility APIs in rust GUI. lightningcss (or its lower level counterpart cssparser) are both decent options for CSS parsing. Taffy handles some of what browsers offer for a layout engine, but is still being worked on.
  • Show HN: Slint - A Declarative UI Toolkit Written in Rust for Embedded & Desktop
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Jun 2023
    While there are a lot of Rust UI frameworks, none of them are really recommended for production use yet. I suspect a few of the will die off and work will coalesce a few once things mature a bit.

    Another nice feature of the Rust UI ecosystem is that lots of it is being built in a modular way. For example I maintain a layout engine [0] library which just does layout and can be easily integrated by anybody creating a UI library. And there a bunch of similar composable libraries covering rendering, text layout, accessibility, window creation, clipboard access, etc.

    [0]: https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy

  • Conflict-Driven Synthesis for Layout Engines
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Jun 2023
    You might be interested in the combination of Taffy [0] which handles box-level browser layout (block, flexbox, grid, etc) and Cosmic Text [1] which handles text-level layout and basic text editing functionality.

    Integrating them into browsers while retaining accessibility could be tricky. But in they're general they're relatively small standalone libraries implementing most of the layout algorithms that browsers implement (although there are currently a few key missing features like laying out "inline-block" items in line with text).

    [0]: https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy

    [1]: https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-text

  • Ink: React for interactive command-line apps
    24 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 May 2023
    I maintain a library (https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy) that implements both Flexbox and CSS Grid, and is designed to be easily embedded (similar to Yoga, which Ink is using).

What are some alternatives?

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yoga - Yoga is an embeddable layout engine targeting web standards.

cosmic-text - Pure Rust multi-line text handling

morphorm - A UI layout engine written in Rust

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