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cztomczak
cefpython
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cztomczak / cefpython
cefpython
Python bindings for the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF)
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| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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6 sourcesWEwesturner·Jul 10, 2024
tauri-apps/tauri: https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri :
> The user interface in Tauri apps currently leverages tao as a window handling library on macOS, Windows, Linux, Android and iOS. To render your application, Tauri uses WRY, a library which provides a unified interface to the system webview, leveraging WKWebView on macOS & iOS, WebView2 on Windows, WebKitGTK on Linux and Android System WebView on Android. ... Tauri GitHub action: https://tauri.app/v1/guides/building/cross-platform/#tauri-g...
WebView: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebView
CEF: Chromium Embedded Framework > External Projects: https://github.com/chromiumembedded/cef#external-projects : cefglue, cefpython,: https://github.com/cztomczak/cefpython
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tauri-apps/wry > Bundle Chromium Renderer; Chromium WebView like WebView2 (Edge (Chromium))
https://github.com/tauri-
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Some time ago I helped build a software that heavily used some python GIS libraries (GDAL, rasterio, etc) and we needed a UI for some windows users. We chose cefpython[1] to the job, as we could interface easily between the python and JS parts. The development experience is not so polished as of Electron though.
Nonetheless, is a great project and not so difficult to use, although not perfect, it worked perfectly for our needs.
[1] https://github.com/cztomczak/cefpython
In The Game UI Database, a comprehensive reference of game interface designPython Bindings for the Chromium Embedded Framework
3 points · Open discussionTo add to this, if you like concept/portability/cost-effectiveness of Electron but don't want to mess with the Node/npm ecosystem, there are chromium embedded frameworks out there for Java and Python[0][1][2].
[0]: https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/java-cef
[1]: https://github.com/cztomczak/cefpython
[2]: https://www.teamdev.com/jxbrowser
In Flutter desktop shellsI believe QWebView w/ QtWebKit was deprecated in favor of QWebEngine which is Chromium thereby causing the same problems as Electron (bulky, multi-process which is the way of the browser these days). Granted QtWebKit appears to be maintained in a fork at [0].
If someone wanted to use Chrome, a more bare-bones approach w/ Qt might be CEF. An example in Python is here [1].
0 - https://github.com/annulen/webkit (see the wiki)
1 - https://github.com/cztomczak/cefpython/blob/master/examples/...
In Cross-platform email client with React and CoffeeScriptCEF Python 56.1 released – supports Python 3 on all platforms
1 points · Open discussion