alcro-0.1.0 has been yanked.

Alcro

A small library to build desktop apps using rust and modern web technologies. It uses Chrom(e/ium) browser for UI. It does not bundle chrome but instead communicates with the existing chrome installation. Thus rust functions can be called from the UI and javascript can be called Rust.

Name

Alcro works similarily to the go library lorca so the name alcro is an anagram of lorca.

Examples

https://github.com/Srinivasa314/alcro/tree/master/examples

Features

Small applications
Use web technologies for UI and use safe and fast rust code.
Can control and get position, size and state of window
Expose rust functions to Javascript
Call any JS code from rust
Exposed functions are asynchronous
Load HTML from url, local file or even embedded files
JS console messages and exceptions are printed for easier debugging
Can run in headless mode
Supports running many windows

Limitations

Requires Chrom(e/ium) to be installed
Native OS dialogs, systray, etc. needs third party libraries

Working