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Graffiti – HTML/CSS Engine for Node.js and Deno Written in Rust
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graffiti
HTML/CSS engine for node.js and deno.
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14 sourcesHave a look at https://github.com/cztomsik/graffiti.
In Kosmonaut: web browser from scratch in RustCheck out these projects: https://github.com/litehtml/litehtml, https://github.com/yue/yue, https://github.com/cztomsik/graffiti
In Kosmonaut: web browser from scratch in RustBoth reasons are why I'm trying to develop an OSS alternative with easiness & platform-independence of the web but much lower system requirements than what electron has.
I'm currently close to prealpha, if you're interested.
https://github.com/cztomsik/graffiti/
In Audacious 4.0 released, switches from GTK to Qt 5Hey, I'm making this and I was wondering what do you think about the idea and maybe I don't know, inspire me with some new features :-)
Right now, it can play radios (using ffplay), show weather and browse filesystem. The rest is still in the works but one neat thing I want to do is to play games from internet archive (download, extract, run dosbox)
Here's a link to a gif
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3526922/74057963-4...
Source: https://github.com/cztomsik/hackable-tv
If you wonder, it's using a lib (alternative to electron) I'm working on for year or so but it's still not production-ready so calm your expectations :-)
Thanks to that, I was able to use regular web libraries(react, react-dom, wouter, react-spring & @ norigin-media/react-spatial-navigation)
https://github.com/cztomsik/graffiti/tree/master/src
If you want to ru
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n it yourself, you'll need rust installed and it will take a while to compile (despite the cryptic npm progress message, it's compiling - I have no idea how to fix it, it's probably a limitation with github style dependencies)
But if you're lucky, it should be just:
- git clone
- npm i
- npm run dev
you can also `npm run build && npm start` - that will consume much less memory (around 30M)
(I've posted this on reddit first but it got blocked 2 times because of some rules and have no idea what I've done wrong :-/)
I'm doing something similar (also in my free time), how about joining our forces?
https://github.com/cztomsik/graffiti
In Show HN: Proton Native V2 – Create Cross Platform Desktop Apps with ReactWebGL is planned for graffiti
It's not finished yet but you can get close to 20M mem usage + overhead of your libs & assets. Executable size is node.js + 2M (30M total IIRC and it compresses nicely to ~10M *.dmg because node contains a lot of strings)
Please file an issue if you want it to happen so that it can be tracked how many people want it too (I had no idea that this is a thing in gaming community). It's now at the bottom of my priorities (I'm working on raspi support so that it can run as smartmirror) but it's not that hard to add so it could actually happen.
https://github.com/cztomsik/graffiti
In Tools we used to create a hit HTML5 game on SteamHey, and good luck with revery :) I am doing something very similar but I wouldn't ever consider any GC language for the low-level part.
I want to write UI in javascript because it's really nice language for prototyping but I also want it to be fast and javascript is unpredictable. Now, this might not be the case with OCAML but no matter what optimizations your compiler (or JIT interpreter) can do, you're still living in a lie, it's still some abstraction which is going to leak at some point.
I've recently removed quite a lot of rust dependencies (wrappers) and the speedup is very noticable, it's because abstractions always come with a cost and you can't just pretend you're living in a rainbow world.
BTW: you're not going to get much lower than 50M, cocoa has some overhead (10M IIRC), node has too (20M) and OCaml GC needs some heap too, a
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nd if you have any images, you need to keep them somewhere before sending to the GPU and GC to be fast needs to keep some mem around so that allocs are faster than just plain malloc.
BTW2: in rust world, it's common to see custom allocators and data-oriented programming because it starts to get noticeable and this is hard to do if you can't reason about memory.
If anyone is interested too, here's a repo
https://github.com/cztomsik/graffiti
I'm doing something similar https://github.com/cztomsik/graffiti/
In Show HN: Azula – Lightweight GPU Accelerated Electron AlternativeWebrender might be the abstraction you want.
I don’t know anything about this, but node wrappers for webrender: https://github.com/cztomsik/node-webrender
And even a demo app: https://github.com/cztomsik/slack-app/blob/master/README.md
In The rise of wgpushameless self-promotion
https://github.com/cztomsik/node-webrender
(not production-ready but it might be soon good enough for really quick GUI prototyping using subset of web technologies - javascript + react + flexbox + styles)
HMR & react-devtools are already supported.
In WKWebView, an Electron alternative on macOS/iOSI wonder what do you think about this: https://github.com/cztomsik/node-webrender
node+react+servo, consumes ~30M ram on my osx (if you precompile typescript files)
it's nowhere near to XUL but it's also little more powerful because of react (vdom is more dynamic than XML, it will be possible to use react-devtools and it should support HMR too)
In Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?it's not animated at all actually, there's 100ms setInterval, which mutates the state and the vue then in turn sends a new frame
https://github.com/cztomsik/node-webrender/blob/master/examp...
In WebRender is in betaI've just made very basic integration with node. It's rather PoC, but it works.
It can currently show a window and render moving rect from vue.js template. There's still a lot of work to be done, webrender does too little to be just drop in replacement for electron but it might be worth watching if you're interested in anything like that (lightweight cross-platform opengl-rendered gui apps developed in react/vue/angular/...)
https://github.com/cztomsik/node-webrender
In WebRender is in beta