Yet another question for a GUI framework (slint alternative?)

• slint

  138 15,461 9.9 Rust

  Slint is a declarative GUI toolkit to build native user interfaces for Rust, C++, or JavaScript apps.

  

From what I gathered GUI is still a more or less brittle topic in the rust ecosystem. What I'm trying to do is creating an enigma machine in rust for a puzzle I plan to design and for learning GUI in rust and rust in general. After googling around a little bit, I stumbled upon slint, formerly sixtyFPS. I really liked the almost HTML-like markup language, so you have really strict separation of logic and markup. I already was able to design a crude keyboard of the enigma input, and make the buttons flash, if clicked, but I really struggled with manipulating the GUI from within the rust code. I want to be able to press the button on my physical keyboard and make the according button on the screen light up. This proved to be quite unintuitive and I found almost no documentation.

• tauri

  473 78,522 9.8 Rust

  Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.

  

use Tauri in a project to build desktop app from web app , I get:

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• dioxus

  155 18,812 9.9 Rust

  Fullstack GUI library for web, desktop, mobile, and more.

  

The library i use is Dioxus (https://github.com/DioxusLabs/dioxus), which is basically react, but in rust. Their book is really helpful to get you started, and if you’ve done anything with react you wont have any problem.

• cli

  1 162 6.6 Rust

  Discontinued Dev server, hot reload, and packaging tool for Dioxus apps. Includes VSCode Extension (by DioxusLabs)

  

You can, but the user has to have webview installed. It can be bundled with the app with their cli tool (https://github.com/DioxusLabs/cli)

• cxx-qt

  28 940 9.6 Rust

  Safe interop between Rust and Qt

  

Slint is similar to qt quick, and since qt is a more mature gui framework you can try a crate for qt interopt such as https://github.com/KDAB/cxx-qt/. This crate allows you to QObjects in rust for usage in qml.

• gtk4-cross

  9 56 3.4 Shell

  A Docker container for cross-compiling gtk4 programs to Windows.

With gtk4 you can just bundle the libs. You can check out https://github.com/MGlolenstine/gtk4-cross for a docker container that handles cross-compiling to windows and packaging the libs.

• mdSilo

  29 243 4.4 TypeScript

  In-browser knowledge base on top of local plain-text files

use Tauri in a project to build desktop app from web app , I get:

• SaaSHub

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• cushy

  2 393 9.6 Rust

  An experimental cross-platform graphical user interface (GUI) crate for Rust.

  

I started a project, Gooey, that I feel is a good foundation to building an extensible user interface. Sadly, it has no flexbox, grid layouts, or scrolling support. What it does have:

• sycamore

  70 2,695 7.3 Rust

  A library for creating reactive web apps in Rust and WebAssembly

  

I'd like to mention Sycamore (disclaimer: I created this project) which is inspired from SolidJS but in Rust.

Suggest a related project