Ask HN: Does Java need a modern Java UI toolkit for desktop/web?

• SnapKit

  10 189 9.4 Java

  A Java UI toolkit (by reportmill)

If Java had a modern UI toolkit to create & run apps natively on the desktop and in the browser, could it rescue Java Client development?

I've been working on SnapKit for several years (+) to rescue my apps from obscurity by deploying in the browser and it's gone reasonably well, so I'm wondering whether it could be more:

GitHub: https://github.com/reportmill/SnapKit

Demos: https://www.reportmill.com/snaptea/

jeff

• teavm

  30 2,479 9.5 Java

  Compiles Java bytecode to JavaScript, WebAssembly and C

SnapKit is a huge framework with lots of functionality. One key part for the browser integration module (SnapTea) is TeaVM https://github.com/konsoletyper/teavm

TeaVM converts Java code to run in the browser. It provides the ability to call JS functions to access browser feattures like canvas and XHR. However, unless you want to be coding like Vanilla JS, you'll want a framework on top. SnapKit provides that.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• Tokamak

  22 2,446 0.0 Swift

  SwiftUI-compatible framework for building browser apps with WebAssembly and native apps for other platforms

  

• HumbleUI

  5 1,115 7.7 Clojure

  Clojure Desktop UI framework

  

Nikita Prokopov is developing Humble UI which is worth keeping a close eye on. (Yes, it's Clojure, but Java interop is bound to emerge if it builds up a critical mass and catches on.)

https://github.com/HumbleUI/HumbleUI/

• tornadofx

  9 3,669 1.1 Kotlin

  Lightweight JavaFX Framework for Kotlin

• compose-multiplatform

  96 14,664 9.6 Kotlin

  Compose Multiplatform, a modern UI framework for Kotlin that makes building performant and beautiful user interfaces easy and enjoyable.

  

https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-jb

I've put a part of the sentence in quotes because actually they've written a new desktop backend based on skia for the already existing Android Compose UI API.

• cljfx

  17 912 5.3 Clojure

  Declarative, functional and extensible wrapper of JavaFX inspired by better parts of react and re-frame

  

Super excited about this. I've been using cljfx (https://github.com/cljfx/cljfx) to build a few apps and it's so developer efficient.

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• tornadofx2

  8 152 1.8 Kotlin

  TornadoFX 2.0

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