lightningcss
gosub-engine
| lightningcss | gosub-engine | |
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| 11 | 4 | |
| 5,966 | 2,060 | |
| 2.0% | -0.0% | |
| 8.7 | 9.7 | |
| 5 days ago | 1 day ago | |
| Rust | Rust | |
| Mozilla Public License 2.0 | MIT License |
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lightningcss
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I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser
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.
- LightningCSS Benchmark
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We're building a browser when it's supposed to be impossible
Libraries for a lot of this stuff exist (albeit in many cases not very mature yet):
- https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-text does text layout (which Taffy explicitly considers out of scope)
- https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit does accessibility
- https://github.com/servo/rust-cssparser does value-agnostic CSS parsing (it will parse the general syntax but leaves value parsing up to the user, meaning you can easily add support for whatever properties you what). Libraries like https://github.com/parcel-bundler/lightningcss implement parsing for the standard css properties.
- There are crates like https://github.com/BurntSushi/bstr and https://docs.rs/wtf8/latest/wtf8/ for working with non-unicode text
We are planning to add a C API to Taffy, but tbh I feel like C is not very good for this kind of modularised approach. You really want to be able to expose complex APIs with enforced type safety and this isn't possible with C.
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Help with "returns a value referencing data owned by the current function"
Background: I encountered this problem using lightningcss.
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On Using Rust in Parcel and Vitest
You can do it - that's actually exactly what my project is doing. I have a single repository with a Rust project, that builds the .wasm file (+ .d.ts + .js) using wasm-pack, and a Node.js project, that uses this .wasm file. There's no problem in packing that and exposing as a npm package. See parcel-bundler/lightningcss for a full blown example (it's not using wasm-pack but builds the Rust project directly).
- An fast CSS parser, transformer, bundler, and minifier written in Rust
- Parcel-Css - A CSS parser, transformer, and minifier written in Rust.
- ParcelCSS – A CSS parser, transformer, and minifier written in Rust
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Parcel CSS: A new CSS parser, compiler, and minifier
Initial commit, 9 Oct 2021. That is pretty new.
gosub-engine
- Gosub: A HTML5 tokenizer / parser that hopefully grow up to be a browser
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GoSuB Browser Progress, pt26
If you enjoy learning more about the development of this new browser come visit us at /r/gosubio or check the resources on gosub.io
- The gateway to optimized searching and browsing
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I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser
There is, here: https://github.com/jaytaph/gosub-browser
(So the text of the link is correct, just not where it points to.)
What are some alternatives?
PostCSS - Transforming styles with JS plugins
Servo - Servo, the embeddable, independent, memory-safe, modular, parallel web rendering engine
swc - Rust-based platform for the Web
taffy - A high performance rust-powered UI layout library
rust-cssparser - Rust implementation of CSS Syntax Level 3
cosmic-text - Pure Rust multi-line text handling
parse5 - HTML parsing/serialization toolset for Node.js. WHATWG HTML Living Standard (aka HTML5)-compliant.
retrokit - :joystick: Bring back the old Web(Kit) and make it secure
x-ray - The next web scraper. See through the <html> noise.
tersenet - A new type of JavaScript-free light-weight fast browser built on rst and web assembly. Does not actually exist.
excel-stream
serenity - The Serenity Operating System 🐞