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nodegui
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Brig: A user interface toolkit for Node.js, which is based on Qt for rendering
This looks like it hasn't been maintained in years but there's a modern equivalent in NodeGUI [1] which also has React/Svelte/Vue implementations. Unfortunately it requires a custom build of Node that merges the libuv and Qt6 event loops so YMMV.
It actually inspired me to write my own implementation with Svelte on top of QuickJS and Qt Widgets but the task of wrapping the entire Qt6 API in Rust proved to be intractable once I found out that most methods weren't marked Q_INVOKABLE and thus couldn't be called via reflection (requiring manual wrapping). Providing a `Document.createElement` API that created Qt Widgets with working attributes and event handling worked surprisingly well though!
[1] https://github.com/nodegui/nodegui
- Build performant, native and cross-platform desktop apps with Node.js and CSS
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Does anybody have trouble running NodeGui projects? Does 'nodegui-starter' repo work for you?
Hi, so this NodeGui library for building apps with native components is something I really want to get into, but, it does not work for me.. so I am starting this thread to check with yous (I depleted google results) if any one of you have tips or workarounds I can use. I wish to build a desktop app, but I really do not want to bundle a web browser for that purpose and NodeGui seems perfect.
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[Hiring] Create UI to Accept User Input using NodeGui to create a Native Desktop Application
Use NodeGui (or some equivalent tool) for this. Source: https://docs.nodegui.org/ This is needed because this entire project will run natively, by that I mean it will run with no browser, no local host and it no internet connection.
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Neutralinojs - Alternativa para o Electron
NodeGUI
- NodeGui – Build performant, native, cross platform desktop apps
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Electron Adventures: Episode 75: NodeGui React
Let's continue exploring Electron alternatives. This time, NodeGui. NodeGui uses Qt5 instead of Chromium, so we'll be leaving the familiar web development behind, but it tries to not be too far from it, as web development is what everyone knows.
- How do you create a cross-platform GUI without using Electron?
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Are we GUI Yet? The state of building user interfaces in Rust
(Disclaimer: My knowledge of Rust very limited, but I have quite a bit of experience with getting Qt/KDE classes to work with other languages.)
You are absolutely right. The effort to be acceptable bindings for Qt would be a tiny fraction of the cost compared to building a whole new Rust native GUI library.
Qt is huge set of libraries with an equally huge API. But there are a lot of shortcuts and smart ways of approaching the problem to get what you want out of Qt for minimum effort.
Bindings like PyQt and even PySide go for the nuclear option of generating bindings for the whole Qt API and trying to match the C++ API in style too. This is an absolutely massive huge task. Also, getting people to contribute to an open source bindings project is hard. Getting people to contribute to a bindings generator is even harder.
NodeGui https://github.com/nodegui/nodegui, Qt bindings for Nodejs, on the other hand takes a very different approach which in one way is low-tech but I think is actually very smart. I'll summerise the differences:
* It focuses on Qt Widgets first. This greatly reduces the amount of work to the parts that people actually need. (BTW, if you just want QML and Rust back-end then Jos van den Oever's work at https://invent.kde.org/sdk/rust-qt-binding-generator has probably got you covered already.)
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Todo list of development tasks
There is actually a new GUI framework based out of Qt (a C++ GUI framework) that I have found recently : https://docs.nodegui.org/
compose-multiplatform
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Understanding file associations in JVM apps
So, to add file associations, we need to be able to pass both the .properties file and the --file-associations option. At the time of writing this article, the org.jetbrains.compose plugin doesn't provide such a mechanism. There is an open issue on GitHub that describes a possible workaround, which, unfortunately seems to not work on macOS.
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Compose cannot be used for large amount of text
JetBrains has a simplified example of a general-purpose Compose text viewer here: https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-multiplatform/blob/master/examples/codeviewer/shared/src/commonMain/kotlin/org/jetbrains/codeviewer/ui/editor/Editor.kt
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[Compose Multiplatform] Disable a button according to a list of flow values
![image](https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-multiplatform/assets/1382241/6747a3f6-53b9-43da-8d97-ab1e1e31170f)
- Compose Multiplatform 1.5.0-beta01
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Timeline with Scrollbar in LazyColumn Compose
Compose for desktop has a scrollbar component available. You probably can't use that directly on Android, but you could probably steal most of its code.
- How good is Compose Multiplatform in production especially in creating Desktop apps?
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Kotlin for a desktop App
My company uses https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-multiplatform to make a desktop app in Kotlin. It's amazing and fantastic. It's basically as mature as using Kotlin in an Android app.
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Kamel v0.5.0 released with Kotlin Native and JS support
Kamel is an asynchronous media loading library for Compose Multiplatform.
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Ksoup - Kotlin Multiplatform HTML Parser âš¡
Kotlin Compose Multiplatform is the way to do Desktop apps. https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-multiplatform
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JetBrains Compose is now Compose Multiplatform
As for missing controls, a common one is a grid. They have built in grids, but again they are built for Android and don't make any sense in a desktop app. There is no simple way to create an Excel-like Data Grid like you might see in Windows Forms, although it can be done. https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-multiplatform/issues/344.
What are some alternatives?
tauri - Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.
javafx-examples - A large collection of JavaFX examples demonstrating basic + advanced features of JavaFX.
neutralinojs - Portable and lightweight cross-platform desktop application development framework
tornadofx - Lightweight JavaFX Framework for Kotlin
QtScrcpy - Android real-time display control software
skiko - Kotlin MPP bindings to Skia
awesome-electron-alternatives - A curated list of awesome Electron alternatives.
javafx-gradle-plugin - Gradle plugin that makes it easy to work with JavaFX 11+
Jetpack-Compose-Playground - Community-driven collection of Jetpack Compose example code and tutorials :rocket: https://foso.github.io/compose
Signal-Desktop - A private messenger for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
tornadofx2 - TornadoFX 2.0