wails

I'm trying to make localhosting (https://thelocalhostinger.dev/localhosting) a thing. It's about finding ways to strip away unnecessary complexity of selfhosting in very specific edge use cases. Right now I am tinkering with wails (https://github.com/wailsapp/wails) to build an app store.

go install github.com/wailsapp/wails/v2/cmd/wails@latest Why is that hidden behind a click and two walls of text?

There's also https://github.com/tkrajina/typescriptify-golang-structs Which is used for example in the Go GUI framwork Wails: https://github.com/wailsapp/wails/tree/v2.11.0/v2/internal/b...

There's Wails for Go backend and webview frontend; https://github.com/wailsapp/wails

For Go, I've been using Wails [1] and Fyne [2]. The former uses a web view for the UI, the latter is Go only. [1] https://github.com/wailsapp/wails [2] https://github.com/fyne-io/fyne

HTML/CSS can still be used for the frontend even without Electron. Some frameworks use the OS bundled web renderer instead: - For Rust apps: https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri - For Go apps: https://github.com/wailsapp/wails

> Why not just use the Chrome render engine directly from Rust? This is what projects like Tauri (in Rust) and Wails (in Go) are doing[0][1]. Utilizing Webview to develop applications, but they still don't support mobile, Tauri mobile is in beta. Basically Tauri and Wails are on one side (HTML/CSS) trying to approach cross platform by supporting mobile platforms, while Flutter and Kotlin Compose Multiplatform started from the other side. So it depends on your needs, web-first or mobile-first, and what platforms matter to you. So far Flutter is in the lead offering the most polished experience when it comes to supporting all platforms (Web, desktop, iOS, Android). [0] https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri [1] https://github.com/wailsapp/wails

A different option is Wails [1], which allows you to write all logic in Go, and the UI in HTML (with any or no web framework). It's like Electron but lighter because it doesn't ship Chrome but uses the system's web viewer instead. [1] https://github.com/wailsapp/wails

I have built Web front-ends (React or Svelte) with Go-backend. Embed in a web-view to make it a native desktop app, or get funky and give it native chrome/menus etc. [Wails](https://github.com/wailsapp/wails) is a good candidate to start if you want to cut on boiler plate.

If Rust is too much of an adventure, maybe you'll find Go easier. Wails [1] is great if perhaps a bit more rough round the edges. Because it's go, package sizes are 10mb+ but nothing like Electron 30mb+ 1. https://github.com/wailsapp/wails

There are some technologies like this. I'm going to look into Wails: https://github.com/wailsapp/wails

I explored couple of methods to develope desktop/mobile GUI with Go a few weeks ago. These are some of them: 1) Fyne (https://github.com/fyne-io/fyne) Popular. Native functionalities like trays, etc. Mobile app possible. Looks okay. 2) Gio (https://gioui.org/) Looks okay. Customisable. Tailscale Mobile app is made with this. 3) Wails (https://github.com/wailsapp/wails) Easy WebView for Go. Lacks native functionalities. 4) Sciter (https://sciter.com) embedded in Go Haven't explored much. 5) Giu (https://github.com/AllenDang/giu) Based on Dear ImGui. Doesn't look very polished. P.S. I settled on Gio for the mobile app and ditched the desktop app altogether.

Asked for the same thing, but it's impossible or too hard to do it. - https://github.com/wailsapp/wails/discussions/1452 - https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/2709

Thank your for your reply! > I'm a web dev, so I'm not comply to web spec but chasing it, as a web dev, I'm happy about this, so I take the web spec as granted. Okay, now I see: As a web dev you are able to make use of all these new features. I do not know about current conveniences. FWIW is that CSS should be portable across any browser/web view. And given that browsers nowadays occupy tons of memory (even though they are written in highly performant languages) I am still impressed by sciters small shipping size. > If I'm building a app biz company, I may choose sciter. sciter is not "free" to use, I remember sciter used to tring allowed the static linking if the donation is good enough, but seems not reach the goal, which means can not get a static exe like https://github.com/wailsapp/wails . Thank you for the recommendation!! It appea