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9650 :: Electron in nim like Tarui and Wails v2

• matt (orginal) [2022-11-25T05:14:35+01:00] view original

  From nimview, "Currently, the project is not in active development anymore. There is tauri (written in rust) that has similar goals and is much more advanced than nimview."

  Rust has Tarui and Golang has Wails v2. Could we have something like that?

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• giaco (orginal) [2022-11-25T11:52:57+01:00] view original

  Sure. Why not?

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• juancarlospaco (orginal) [2022-11-25T12:58:54+01:00] view original

  https://github.com/juancarlospaco/webgui

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• alexeypetrushin (orginal) [2022-11-25T22:59:08+01:00] view original

  [quote]https://github.com/juancarlospaco/webgui[/quote]Thanks. I look at examples and still don't quite understand how to use it... having a classical UI example, like https://todomvc.com , that would highlight how to a) create content dynamically b) handle events c) read/write state would be really helpful.

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• juancarlospaco (orginal) [2022-11-26T05:20:51+01:00] view original

  https://juancarlospaco.github.io/webgui/#realminuslife-projects

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• alexeypetrushin (orginal) [2022-11-26T17:54:00+01:00] view original

  Ok, I see. It's a low-level bridge between WebView and Nim. It can be used to build simple forms etc. But can't be used for complex UI, as it would require some sort of higher level framework, like Karax etc.

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• juancarlospaco (orginal) [2022-11-26T19:18:02+01:00] view original

  Any UI that targets JS can be used, including Karax, JS vanilla, SVG, Nim stdlib nimf, Nimx, canvas, Latex MathML, NodeJS UIs, etc.

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• alexeypetrushin (orginal) [2022-11-26T21:03:45+01:00] view original

  [quote]Any UI that targets JS can be used[/quote]Hmmm, then what's the point of using webgui? If you target JS (with Karax), you can use Electron or any other WebView libs, you don't need any integration with Nim.

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• alexeypetrushin (orginal) [2022-11-27T17:26:55+01:00] view original

  Update to my previous message, I was wrong. I misunderstood the goal of libraries like tauri, wails, nimview, webgui.

  I though those framework would allow you to develop UI in Rust/Go/Nim with HTML/CSS. But as it turned out, it's not the case. The UI had to be in JS or compile-to-JS. You can't do UI in Rust/Go/Nim, you only can call Rust/Go/Nim code from your JS UI code.

  For typical GUI App the code base would look like 95% in JS/Compile-to-JS and 5% in Rust/Go/Nim.

  I'm not sure why you would want to use two languages, why you can't use just one language, and do the rest 5% code in same JS/Compile-to-JS as you use for the UI...

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