webview

Tiny cross-platform webview library for C/C++/Golang. Uses WebKit (Gtk/Cocoa) and Edge (Windows) (by webview)
C #GUI #Webui #Webkit #Golang #C #single-header-lib #Cgo
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webview/webview is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.

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  • GUI heavy games - what are my options
    reddit.com/r/gamedev | 2021-04-30
    No problem. Here is an additional thought: Instead of injecting your assets like their example shows, your game could instead run its own web server and your webview could connect to it at localhost:12345 (where 12345 is the port you started it on). You could use any C/C++ webserver library you want.
    reddit.com/r/gamedev | 2021-04-30
    You might consider webview which is a C++ single header, cross-platform webview library. It uses WebKit (on Mac and Linux) and Edge with Chromium backend (on Windows). Unlike CEF and Electron, since it uses each platforms native webview control, the resulting binary is kilobytes in size rather than hundreds of megabytes. They have a code example demonstrating how C++ and JavaScript can communicate. You could easily write the bulk of your game logic in C++ and use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for display only. Heck, since it's a full browser, you could even setup an NPM package for your game, bring in web dependencies if you wish, and code in a type-safe language that compiles to JavaScript, like TypeScript.
  • Cross-platform building instructions, using GitHub workflows (for webview/webview)
    dev.to | 2021-04-11
    I need to do this, because Neutralino.js documentation is currently broken, and webview/webview documentation sucks; and I don't know how to maximize in Tauri.
  • I personally look forward to the day when every program I run embeds JavaScript and an HTML engine in it. Then we will be living in an age of true modernity in software development.
    reddit.com/r/programmingcirclejerk | 2021-03-16
    You can tell it to use Edge/WebKit instead, so it's as modern as Chrome, check out https://github.com/webview/webview
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    reddit.com/r/golang | 2021-03-09
    zserge also made something that is not depending on Chrome (like lorca) https://github.com/webview/webview I've used it, and it works great.
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    reddit.com/r/programming | 2021-02-23
    This library seems very interesting by using preinstalled browser (Chrome, or, on Windows, Edge), but I'm afraid it won't get traction.
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    news.ycombinator.com | 2021-02-19
    > I kind of wonder why it took this long for someone to try this approach.

    Perhaps a similar approach to https://github.com/webview/webview ?

    "Tiny cross-platform webview library for C/C++/Golang. Uses WebKit (Gtk/Cocoa) and Edge (Windows)"

    news.ycombinator.com | 2021-02-19
    It's not a new idea, for instance

    https://github.com/webview/webview

    ...has a fairly long history. It's great for extremely small application packages (when I tinkered around with it on macOS a few years ago I brought it down to 26 kilobytes).

    The usual argument against the idea is that Electron gives you a fixed Chromium version to work against, while the system webviews are a moving target with different underlying browser engines.

    news.ycombinator.com | 2021-02-19
    Tauri has effectively controlled the Webview project for the past year. See https://github.com/webview/webview/issues/305
  • Possibility Of Web Server
    reddit.com/r/DahliaOS | 2021-02-14
    This works on alll desktops and Hyksos based . https://github.com/webview/webview
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    reddit.com/r/rust | 2021-02-14
    Related issue on the webview repository tauri is based on.
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    dev.to | 2021-02-02
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    news.ycombinator.com | 2021-01-28
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