jspaint.exe
gnoga
jspaint.exe | gnoga | |
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0.0 | 10.0 | |
about 1 year ago | almost 6 years ago | |
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GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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jspaint.exe
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Use any web browser as GUI, with Zig in the back end and HTML5 in the front end
This is very polished and cool looking. Inspiring. I find this project's level of polish very inspiring.
It's lovely to see someone has captured this idea and expressed it in the right way to make it interesting to many people. I really hope this mode of desktop apps can take off, at least to the level where the community has something to explore for a while to see if it works. I made something like this for Chrome browsers a while ago, nodejs backends, vanilla front-ends, built-in packaging using pkg. It's just a nice approach: https://github.com/dosyago/graderjs
And I made a demo using the venerable MS Paint clone JS Paint^0. The dev experience was great, I literally just dropped in the front-end code to the right folder, compiled it and wham, "desktop JS paint" on 3 platforms, haha.
Using the ubiquitous local browser as the rendering / API engine for desktop just seems smart. And it's technically interesting, because you get to think in terms of how can you step back from the browser, the platform, the front-end and the back-end and come up with a general API that addresses all of it, which is kinda cool.
0: https://github.com/00000o1/jspaint.exe
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gnoga
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Use any web browser as GUI, with Zig in the back end and HTML5 in the front end
Reminds me of the approach of CLOG (Common Lisp Omnificent Gui[1]) and its ancestor GNOGA (The GNU Omnificent GUI for Ada[2]).
They also integrate basic components and even graphical UI editor (at least for CLOG), so you can essentially develop the whole thing from inside CL or Ada
[1] https://github.com/rabbibotton/clog
[2] https://github.com/alire-project/gnoga
What are some alternatives?
http-observatory - Mozilla HTTP Observatory
zig-webui - Use any web browser as GUI, with Zig in the backend and HTML5 in the frontend.
gnoga - gnoga - The GNU Omnificent GUI for Ada
webui-demo - WebUI standalone binary template
errorpush - Minimalist Error collection Service compatible with Rollbar clients. Sentry or Rollbar alternative.
flexbugs - A community-curated list of flexbox issues and cross-browser workarounds for them.
jspaint - 🎨 Classic MS Paint, REVIVED + ✨Extras
webui - Use any web browser as GUI, with your preferred language in the backend and HTML5 in the frontend, all in a lightweight portable lib.
ollama-html-ui - HTML UI for Ollama. Minimal & responsive UI: mobile & desktop. Cross-browser support. Simple installation: host on your own server, run in your browser.