remarkable VS webview

> we can't take some well-tested, used-by-millions library

You can.

Here is an example of Sciter application that uses RemarkableJS library (https://github.com/jonschlinkert/remarkable) as it is:

https://quark.sciter.com/quark-application-samples/hello-mar...

Simultaneously the #1 trending developer on GitHub across all languages (out of ~17 million developers at the time) with multiple #1 trending projects: Remarkable (https://github.com/jonschlinkert/remarkable), a markdown parser and compiler (also across all languages, out of ~7 million projects), Enquirer (https://github.com/enquirer/enquirer), a stylish, user-friendly prompt system.

Since then they've made things that are IMO quite useful, like enquirer, micromatch, and remarkable.

mdview (sources) uses RemarkableJS for MD->HTML conversion.

will give you split-view out-of-the-box. But web dev's will start looking for frameworks in order to achieve this simple task that browser have internally already.

TL;DR: Web and desktop UIs use inherently different models. You can share parts between these two different platforms but only parts, really.

[1] Remarkable JS: https://github.com/jonschlinkert/remarkable

From a more established company with more guaranteed long-term support than the web frameworks that solve the above problems (like Tauri and Webview)

lower lever/simpler than wails is https://github.com/webview/webview

WebView : Uses a WebView control

BTW, I'm using WebView, it's awesome, not as portable as WebUI but still awesome.

There is webview, a low level C library with various bindings that can be used to create a webview using os provided browser and interact with it. Wrt. featureset its is a lot more simpler and lower level than both electron and wails.

https://github.com/webview/webview

I can't find anything related to this. I need to get the Handle so I can pass it to this webview library https://github.com/webview/webview/blob/master/webview.h. This documentation only references WinUI3 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/develop/ui-input/retrieve-hwnd

There are a few libraries like this: https://github.com/webview/webview on Windows it uses Microsoft’s WebView2 API so the application can be rather small.

Yesterday, I came across this project: https://wails.io/ Is it just my paranoia, or is there some big catch? Doesn't it seem too good to be true?? 😄 Recently, I've been working on a project in Go and I needed a simple, lightweight multiplatform GUI - after exhausting pretty much every option (Qt - bothersome; Ultralight - doesn't work on ARM (M1); Electron - too heavy; Fyne - not robust enough; etc.), I settled for webviews. Now I found the wails project and it just seems to be too good, there simply has to be some kind of a catch. Looks like a simple API, the use of a native HTML/JS engine (ie. no embedded/shared libs, like webviews), support for things like native dialogs, resources embedded in the final bin, etc.

I've tried CLOG with this and it works fine: https://github.com/webview/webview . I think that's an interesting lightweight alternative depending on the project.