xgo
remarkable
xgo | remarkable | |
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3 | 5 | |
2,052 | 5,671 | |
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0.0 | 3.9 | |
over 2 years ago | 5 months ago | |
Shell | JavaScript | |
MIT License | MIT License |
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xgo
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Sciter, the 5 MB Electron alternative, has switched to JavaScript
I see, in this thread, talks about what Sciter does and does not offer.
It's not the only alternative to Electron, but it might be one that offers predictable and repeatable results.
I released a small open source project on HN last week (https://github.com/Fusion/pngsource) and I wrote its backend logic in Go. I built the frontend using Tailwind (https://tailwindcss.com) and DaisyUI (https://daisyui.com) and, using Go compiler flags, I can release the app using both WebView (github.com/webview/webview) (which, yes, does require the host OS' collaboration) and Wails (wails.app) (which also does.)
On Linux/AMD64, the binary's size is 3.7M when building for WebView, and 6.8M when targeting Wails.
The way the app works is I drag/drop files to the UI, magic happens, and I use github.com/ncruces/zenity to prompt the user for a save location.
I cross-compile the apps using xgo (https://github.com/karalabe/xgo)
It's been working pretty well on Linux, Windows, MacOS. I think WebView's approach of limiting the feature set is working well as it feels more "native" than Wails (better refreshes and resize operations for instance)
However, I already have a few tickets reporting that, for instance, the app is displayed as a blank window in some environments. And it's hard to debug remotely, obviously. So, this is where Sciter may be a better option.
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Go & secondary groups: a kaniko adventure!
The test program runs great on macOS, but when I use xgo to cross-compile it for Linux, all it outputs is:
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Yet another way to convert a website (with backend) to desktop app
And, xgo to build cross-platform from Linux; yet I can run in Windows and macOS.
remarkable
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Sciter, the 5 MB Electron alternative, has switched to JavaScript
> 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...
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BREAKING!! NPM package โua-parser-jsโ with more than 7M weekly download is compromised
Since then they've made things that are IMO quite useful, like enquirer, micromatch, and remarkable.
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Sciter officially switched to JavaScript
mdview (sources) uses RemarkableJS for MD->HTML conversion.
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Tauri: An Electron alternative written in Rust
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
What are some alternatives?
daisyui - ๐ผ ๐ผ ๐ผ ๐ผ ๐ผ โThe most popular, free and open-source Tailwind CSS component library
showdown - A bidirectional Markdown to HTML to Markdown converter written in Javascript
kaniko - Build Container Images In Kubernetes
ua-parser-js - UAParser.js - Free & open-source JavaScript library to detect user's Browser, Engine, OS, CPU, and Device type/model. Runs either in browser (client-side) or node.js (server-side).
sciter - Sciter: the Embeddable HTML/CSS/JS engine for modern UI development
sciter-js-sdk - Sciter.JS - Sciter but with QuickJS on board instead of my TIScript
systray - a cross platfrom Go library to place an icon and menu in the notification area
react-markdown - Markdown component for React [Moved to: https://github.com/remarkjs/react-markdown]
quickjspp - Port of QuickJS Javascript Engine.
html-react-parser - ๐ HTML to React parser.
Tailwind CSS - A utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI development.
enquirer - Stylish, intuitive and user-friendly prompts, for Node.js. Used by eslint, webpack, yarn, pm2, pnpm, RedwoodJS, FactorJS, salesforce, Cypress, Google Lighthouse, Generate, tencent cloudbase, lint-staged, gluegun, hygen, hardhat, AWS Amplify, GitHub Actions Toolkit, @airbnb/nimbus, and many others! Please follow Enquirer's author: https://github.com/jonschlinkert