Browser Window

Browser Window is a simple Rust crate for using Browsers in simple windows. Just like Electron, you can use it to build graphical user interfaces with HTML/CSS/JS technology. Browser Window was born from the lack of a good and simple Electron alternative for Rust. There are actually a few ones out there already. However, they lack a few important things.

Goals

Browser Window aims to be cross-platform, very simple, and straight forward. Many methods in Browser Window are asynchronous, such as evaluating JavaScript code and getting back its output. Browser Window utilizes and benefits from Rust's async/await syntax, so this should make it a breeze.

Moreover, if you want to use it in a multi-threaded environment, that's also possible with our thread-safe handles!

You can view an example of a terminal emulator, to see how easily a GUI with Browser Window can be made.

Requirements

At this moment, Windows is the only supported platform, but support for other platforms will follow.

Also, Browser Window uses the Chromium engine. So the Chromium Embedding Framework is a required dependency.

Getting Started

Click here for a manual on how to set up everything that's needed to use Browser Window.

License

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

Development

If you want to help out, you're more than welcome! I could use some help with implementing MacOS support actually.

Comming Soon

At the moment, basic functionality is available, but there is more to come. These are the features that are awaiting implementation:

• Linux support (through GTK+) [underway]
• MacOS support (through Cocoa)
• Cookie support (including HttpOnly cookies)
• Events