# Slint
[](https://crates.io/crates/slint)
[](https://docs.rs/slint)
# A Rust UI toolkit
[Slint](https://slint.rs) is a Rust based UI toolkit to build native user interfaces on desktop platforms and for embedded devices.
This crate provides the Rust APIs to interact with the user interface implemented in Slint.
The complete Rust documentation for Slint can be viewed online at https://slint.rs/docs/rust/slint/.
## Getting Started
The [crate documentation](https://slint.dev/docs/rust/slint/) shows how to use this crate.
### Hello World
The most basic "Hello world" application can be achieved with a few lines of code:
In your `Cargo.toml` add:
```toml
[dependencies]
slint = "1.3.0"
```
And in your `main.rs`:
```rust,no_run
slint::slint!{
export component HelloWorld {
Text {
text: "hello world";
color: green;
}
}
}
fn main() {
HelloWorld::new().unwrap().run().unwrap();
}
```
The [`slint` crate documentation](https://slint.dev/docs/rust/slint/)
contains more advanced examples and alternative ways to use this crate.
To quickly get started, you can use the [Template Repository](https://github.com/slint-ui/slint-rust-template) with
the code of a minimal application using Slint that can be used as a starting point to your program.
```bash
cargo install cargo-generate
cargo generate --git https://github.com/slint-ui/slint-rust-template
```
## More examples
You can quickly try out the [examples](/examples) by cloning this repo and running them with `cargo run`
```sh
# Runs the "printerdemo" example
cargo run --release --bin printerdemo
```