Show HN: Svelte NodeGUI, a lightweight Electron alternative with native UI

Re:Show HN: Svelte NodeGUI, a lightweight Electron alternati... by singularity2001 on Saturday March 06, 2021 @04:40AM (#26366310)

Is there any electron like framework which uses the native webview libraries (webkit etc) instead of shipping their whole browser for each application?

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Re:Show HN: Svelte NodeGUI, a lightweight Electron alternati... by hybridtupel on Saturday March 06, 2021 @04:52AM (#26366372)

I guess Tauri [1] is like what you are looking for. Was featured here a a few days ago [2].

[1] https://tauri.studio/en/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26194990

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Re:Show HN: Svelte NodeGUI, a lightweight Electron alternati... by Schampu on Saturday March 06, 2021 @04:55AM (#26366383)

There is a WebKit based HTML renderer called Ultralight. It works by creating hooks and intercepting the rendering calls of WebKit in order to allow embedding it easily.

Unfortunately the license of Ultralight is questionable, and it's not open-source either by bypassing the WebKit license (which is very questionable as well since WebKit itself is BSD-licensed).

Having such a project as a free open-source variant would be a huge game changer in my opinion.

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