Boscop/web-view
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Rust bindings for webview, a tiny cross-platform library to render web-based GUIs for desktop applications
9 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 1 story, 8 comments · first 2018-03-06 · latest 2024-12-11
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…has a library called wry that’s basically a more maintained fork of the Rust web-view library. https://github.com/Boscop/web-view We are great friends with Tauri but I think people misunderstand our architecture and philosophy just because…
comment by jkelleyrtp · 2024-12-11 · in Dioxus 0.6 – Crossplatform apps with Rust -
I did some testing using webview ( https://github.com/Boscop/web-view ) which is used by Tauri if I'm not mistaken. On Linux this uses webkitgtk, and it used a total of around 100 MB. That's not that good, but certainly better compared to…
comment by YorickPeterse · 2021-07-09 · in Are we GUI Yet? The state of building user interfaces in Rust -
Yes, here's the magic sauce: https://github.com/Boscop/web-view It creates Rust bindings to WKWebView on macOS, Windows::Web::UI on Windows, and haven't looked at Linux yet.
comment by programmarchy · 2020-07-08 · in Tauri – toolchain for building secure native apps that have tiny binaries -
I've started using the web-view project ( https://github.com/Boscop/web-view ), with good results. Instead of embedding a browser, it uses the system's webview (Safari on macOS, gtk-webkit2 on Linux and Edge on Windows 10).
comment by edko · 2020-04-13 · in Programming Servo: My own private runtime -
…They have forked webview to continue maintaining it, and are now gradually rewriting it in Rust. https://github.com/Boscop/web-view Made on top of that is Tauri, a cross-platform webview-based app just like WebWindow. The key…
comment by erlend_sh · 2019-11-19 · in WebWindow, a cross-platform webview library for .NET Core -
…idea is not bad. In fact it has been done multiple times already. https://github.com/zserge/webview https://github.com/Boscop/web-view and so on
comment by cxvlkjdoijg · 2018-09-20 · in ReactXP – A library for building cross-platform apps -
Web-View ( https://github.com/Boscop/web-view ) and Tether ( https://github.com/quadrupleslap/tether/ ) are two examples of what you're looking for. Web-View is built for Go, but has bindings for several other languages.
comment by xobs · 2018-05-25 · in Show HN: Chromely – Lightweight Alternative to Electron for .NET and .NET Core -
…install, possibly using the Rust web-view bindings[1] to link with the system web engine. [1]: https://github.com/Boscop/web-view
comment by moosingin3space · 2018-03-06 · in Xray – An experimental next-generation Electron-based text editor