I do agree with you regarding the size of the app once everything is setup.
Honestly chosing Electron is more a choice by default than anything else. imo the chosen project should: - be cross platform - be well maintained - allow creating non-native looks through HTML/JS/CSS since I think it's the easiest for the most of us Here's a list of what I've tried so far: - https://github.com/andlabs/ui : drawbacks are it has limited features, force you to have a native look and can't do things like capturing the "Enter" key event in an input box - https://github.com/miketheprogrammer/go-thrust : drawback is it's not maintained anymore - https://github.com/alexflint/gallium : drawback is it's not cross-platform (only MacOSX last time I checked) - https://github.com/murlokswarm/app : drawback is it's not cross-platform (only MacOSX too) - https://github.com/arvitaly/gopherjs-electron : drawback is it's not maintained anymore - https://github.com/rrohrer/go-electroncontrol : drawback is it's not maintained anymore - https://github.com/nodekit-io/nodekit : drawback is it's not maintained anymore As you can see none of them meet the 3 requirements. Which leaves us with Electron which is cross platform, well maintained and allow creating non-native looks through HTML/CSS/JS. If there are other projects I've missed, feel free to let me know, once again chosing Electron is more of a choice by default than anything else. PS : if you're only interested in window positioning and decoration, and don't care about dealing with HTML/CSS/JS I recommend using https://github.com/andlabs/ui which is an awesome project! Le jeudi 27 avril 2017 11:33:10 UTC+2, mhh...@gmail.com a écrit : > > I like it too, i'm only worried by the size of the app once everything it > setup. > > I wonder if its not possible to have something smaller, > obviously with less capabilities. > > imho, i m interested mostly in window positioning and decoration. > Communication is less interesting to me as i can work with http apis, or > so. > > any ideas ? > > On Tuesday, April 25, 2017 at 9:54:22 PM UTC+2, Asticode wrote: >> >> Hi everyone, >> >> I'm happy to announce astilectron, a GO library to build cross platform GUI >> apps in HTML/JS/CSS: https://github.com/asticode/go-astilectron >> >> I needed a way to build a cross platform GUI app in GO but none of the >> projects out there were meeting my needs (they were either only >> MacOSX-compatible or not maintained anymore). At the same time, I knew about >> Electron which is cross-platform and well maintained. So I did the maths and >> took a shot at creating a ligthweight library that could rely on Electron >> and be available in GO. >> >> I've started it this week-end so this is still in beta but in a nutshell, >> here's what it already does: >> >> - on start it provisions the necessary dependencies (electron and a custom >> electron app I've made in NodeJS that provides an API over TCP). This means >> that worst case scenario it downloads the distributions and unzips them. >> Best case scenario (and thanks to the possibility of setting your own >> Provisioner) you can embed the distributions in your binary using go-bindata >> and only unzip them if they're not already set up. >> - then you're good to go and can create windows and interact with them: >> move, resive, maximize, close, etc. >> - each window is a browser therefore you can either load static .html files, >> a remote URL or the local GO server you've just started :D >> - you can communicate between your GO app and the javascript in you server >> - did I mention this is cross-platform? :D >> >> Here's the architecture of the project: >> >> +-------------+ TCP +---------------------+ IPC >> +---------------------+ >> + your GO app |<--------->+ custom Electron app +<-------->+ win1: >> (HTML/JS/CSS) + >> +-------------+ +---------------------+ | >> +---------------------++ >> | | +---->+ win2: >> (HTML/JS/CSS) + >> | +----------+ | | >> +---------------------++ >> +---------+ Electron +--------+ +-->+ win3: >> (HTML/JS/CSS) + >> +----------+ >> +---------------------+ >> >> I'd like to use this beta version to see if people are interested in that >> sort of project. If so, I'll dedicate more hours to add more features. Let >> me know in the comments section. >> >> Of course I welcome any kind of contributions, may it be finding bugs or >> proposing enhancements. >> >> Long live Golang! >> >> Cheers >> Asticode >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
