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465 | 203 | |
76,213 | 19,143 | |
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7 days ago | about 16 hours ago | |
Rust | Rust | |
Apache License 2.0 | MIT OR Apache-2.0. |
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tauri
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Building W-9 Crafter
Tauri seemed like the "thing" I should switch to because everybody loves Rust (heh), and because it ships significantly smaller apps.
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Tauri + React + ShadcnUI
First of all, I will be using npm as my package manager but feel free to use whatever you prefer. Find more info here.
- Shoes makes building little graphical programs for Mac, Windows, Linux simple
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Tauri - Rust, Js and Native Apps
Today I'm talking about Tauri! Do you know all the various tools that allow you to develop native applications starting from web languages? They often need an intermediate compilation, in the middle of which you end up encountering various problems not always transparent and directly solvable with a language mostly detached from native development. On the other hand, there's still the ease of developing attractive and easily usable interfaces, which are more difficult to develop with low level languages.
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Why Bloat Is Still Software's Biggest Vulnerability
I think Tauri is the most established framework using that approach
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Mozilla's Abandoned Web Engine 'Servo' Project Is Getting a Well-Deserved Reboot
I thought not much: https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/579
That issue is four years old. Here is a discussion from last month: https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/discussions/8524#discuss... . The two teams are apparently working together.
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A 2024 Plea for Lean Software
I feel that we would've had better tooling for writing performant GUI apps today if electron JS never took off.
It certainly has its place, and I laud the authors for their efforts, but seeing how every startup is using electron for their native applications, I have little hope for lean software.
At the end of the day, developers need to finance their projects. No other toolchain out there [1] is going to give you the flexibility, development speed, and freedom to develop beautiful looking desktop apps using the muscle memory you trained while writing webpages. Of course, you can write the same application in Qt, GLFW, whatever, but I don't think anyone will disagree that it's much slower to build and prototype responsive UIs with these tools.
[1] Wry and Tauri (https://tauri.app/) might be noteworthy, but I don't know how much of a difference they make, as the runtime is still JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
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Ask HN: What's the stack for your "home-cooked meal" apps?
- Desktop/Mobile wrapping: [Tauri](https://tauri.app)
I know building native apps with web technologies is a bit lame since it's a glorified web view on native devices and thus is somewhat limited, but as a web developer this allows me to play in those worlds a bit more.
I've tried to learn Swift/Kotlin but haven't been able to get as far as I have with JavaScript yet.
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Overlayed: Elevating Your Discord Experience Beyond Gaming
Overlayed is built on the Tauri framework, leveraging the efficiency of Rust programming. This not only ensures a responsive and speedy performance but also highlights Overlayed's commitment to providing users with a cutting-edge and reliable overlay solution.
egui
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Egui 0.27 – easy-to-use immediate mode GUI for Rust
Thanks for the feedback!
It is definitely fixable. Take a look at https://github.com/emilk/egui/issues/996 for some examples of how others have styled egui, or try out https://app.rerun.io/
Styling is done with `ctx.set_style`, but creating a nice style isn't very easy at the moment (basically you'll have to tweak constants in code, and then recompile). I'm working on making it easier as we speak though!
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Rust for Embedded Systems: Current State, Challenges and Open Problems
Nothing is wrong with that, it’s rather a workaround, ultimately I am trying to have one language only including the UI too (been playing with egui),so I don’t have to use JavaScript.
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Immediate Mode GUI Programming
I cannot recommend immediate mode GUI programming based on the limitations I've experienced working with egui.
egui does not support putting two widgets in the center of the screen: https://github.com/emilk/egui/issues/3211
It's really easy to get started with immediate mode, it's really easy to bust out some UI, but the second you start trying to involve dynamically resized context and responsive layouts -- abandon all hope. The fact it has to calculate everything in a single pass makes these things hard/impossible.
... that said, I'm still using it for https://ant.care/ (https://github.com/MeoMix/symbiants) because it's the best thing I've found. I'm crossing my fingers that Bevy's UI story (or Kayak https://github.com/StarArawn/kayak_ui) become significantly more fleshed out sooner rather than later. Bevy 0.13 should have lots more in this area though (https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/discussions/9538)
That's fair. I don't have experience with other immediate mode libraries. It's good to hear that it's not an intrinsic limitation
https://github.com/emilk/egui?tab=readme-ov-file#layout Here the author discusses the issue directly. They note that there are solutions to the issue, but that they all come with (in their opinion) significant drawbacks.
For my use case, if I have to do a lot of manual work to achieve what I consider behavior that should be handled by the framework, then I don't find that compelling and am inclined to use a retained mode implementation.
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GUI library for fast prototyping
AFAIK the Rust equivalent to C++'s Dear ImGui is egui.
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Rerun 0.9 – a framework for visualizing streams of multimodal data
The creator of Rerun (Emil Ernerfeldt) also created egui [1], an immediate GUI library for Rust. The library is similar to Dear ImGui but it is written in Rust and can be used for desktop and web apps (compiles to WASM and uses WebGL, demo [2]). Desktop apps can target OpenGL (does not display correct colors on macOS, does not work in VirtualBox on Windows) or WGPU (uses native APIs for each platform, works without any problems, but the binary is a big larger).
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Textual Web: TUIs for the Web
> [...] you can build UIs that are snappy and keyboard driven.
That's not an advantage that is exclusive to TUIs; after all, you're running your TUI inside a graphical application that emulates a terminal. (Unless you're rocking an actual VT102, in which case I bow down to you.)
In fact there's an entire class of applications that are extremely snappy and keyboard driven, by their very nature: games.
Some people have taken to writing GUI apps like you'd write a game, and the effects range from OK to fantastic. Check out Lagrange (https://gmi.skyjake.fi/lagrange/), AppManager (https://tildegit.org/solene/AppManager), Dear ImGUI (https://github.com/ocornut/imgui), egui (https://github.com/emilk/egui), and many others.
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My Journey Away from the JAMstack
Honestly, frontend development especially with all these crowded frameworks and libraries always confused me so pardon my ignorance, which is why in a project I’m working on right now I’m trying not to use js, instead I’m using egui [1]
Zola is a static site generator and it’s crazy fast, using one binary only [2], also there’s Blades [3], same concept but supposedly faster, never tried it though.
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Festival v1.0.0 - A music player
egui for a GUI library that makes me cry when I want to layout something simple but provides very powerful manual control over things
What are some alternatives?
Wails - Create beautiful applications using Go
neutralinojs - Portable and lightweight cross-platform desktop application development framework
dioxus - Fullstack GUI library for desktop, web, mobile, and more.
iced - A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by Elm
Electron - :electron: Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
imgui - Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies
capacitor - Build cross-platform Native Progressive Web Apps for iOS, Android, and the Web ⚡️
slint - Slint is a declarative GUI toolkit to build native user interfaces for Rust, C++, or JavaScript apps.
react-native-macos - A framework for building native macOS apps with React.
wgpu - Cross-platform, safe, pure-rust graphics api.
yew - Rust / Wasm framework for creating reliable and efficient web applications