Ask HN: How to build a desktop app in 2022

• gallery

  44 6,088 0.0 Dart

  Discontinued Flutter Gallery was a resource to help developers evaluate and use Flutter

  

Web support is early days at the moment and right now but you can take a look here https://gallery.flutter.dev/ to see for yourself where it’s at.

I’ve seen hints of the medium term plan however which is AFAIK move from optimised JS to WASM, bring in WebGPU support, use faster canvas based rendering (rather than DOM although both are supported) and rewrite the rendering engine which is currently happening here https://github.com/flutter/engine/tree/main/impeller

I don’t suspect those problems will remain on web for very long, that looks like a very credible path to push out great native level performance on web as well to me.

• implot

  17 4,311 6.7 C++

  Immediate Mode Plotting

• 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.

  

• webview

  68 11,993 8.5 C

  Tiny cross-platform webview library for C/C++. Uses WebKit (GTK/Cocoa) and Edge WebView2 (Windows).

  

If you want to keep with the browser based rendering, I've used this for a couple side / internal projects: https://github.com/webview/webview

Works quite well for normal things, but 3d webgl stuff can go a bit haywire.

• wails-elm-template

  1 29 10.0 Go

  Create cross-platform GUI apps with Golang + Elm!

Recent evaluation (not mine) can be found here: https://github.com/benjamin-thomas/wails-elm-template#note-o...

This user ends up with Wails + Elm. Some further discussion on his choice here: https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/fancy-some-gui-programming-...

If your visualization needs are covered by https://elm-charts.org/ then this might be a fitting combo for you.

• engine

  48 7,095 10.0 C++

  The Flutter engine (by flutter)

  

Web support is early days at the moment and right now but you can take a look here https://gallery.flutter.dev/ to see for yourself where it’s at.

I’ve seen hints of the medium term plan however which is AFAIK move from optimised JS to WASM, bring in WebGPU support, use faster canvas based rendering (rather than DOM although both are supported) and rewrite the rendering engine which is currently happening here https://github.com/flutter/engine/tree/main/impeller

I don’t suspect those problems will remain on web for very long, that looks like a very credible path to push out great native level performance on web as well to me.

• Avalonia

  254 23,672 9.9 C#

  Develop Desktop, Embedded, Mobile and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. The most popular .NET Foundation community project.

  

If you're ok with electron's size, then you could look at dotnet + avaloniaui. WPF-like and very portable, desktop and mobile. http://avaloniaui.net/

I'm mentioning the size because dotnet itself will take some space unless some other app already installed it.

• awesome-tauri

  4 3,622 8.8

  🚀 Awesome Tauri Apps, Plugins and Resources

  

Tauri if you are already with Rust.

Here are some open source app built with Tauri

https://github.com/tauri-apps/awesome-tauri

• 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.

  

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