BrowserWindow

BrowserWindow is a simple Rust crate for utilizing a browser engine to create a graphical user interface. Just like Electron.js, you can use it to build a GUI with HTML, CSS & JS, or just to have some basic browser functionality at your disposal.

Introduction

BrowserWindow is designed to be easy to use, and work cross-platform. It utilizes the async/await syntax & it even has optional thread-safe handles. There are currently two different underlying browser frameworks that can be selected: WebkitGTK or CEF. These particular frameworks have cross-platform support.

You can look at some examples to get an idea how you can use the api.

Getting Started

The underlying framework, be it CEF or WebkitGTK, needs to be installed on your system. There is a guide to get you started with using BrowserWindow on your own system.

License

This software is available as open source software under a MIT license, for maximum freedom and minimum restrictions.

Future Plans

At the moment, there is a decent set of functionality available, but if something is lacking, please submit an issue, and I might implement it if it the functionality is common enough.

Otherwise, here are some things that are yet to come:

• Support for the Edge WebView2 framework on Windows.
• Events
• Support for Webkit + Cocoa on MacOS.