webview-app

Rust Web View Application for Windows and Linux similar to Electron, but very light weight. It offers the possibility to make web requests from the web site to the rust app and to send events from rust to the web site. The web site can be hosted as integrated resource, of course alternatively via HTTP(s):// or file://.

Sample webview_app:

webview_app >= version 1.0.0 is completely redesigned and it doesn't include a warp server anymore.

Features

webview_app includes following features:

Functional approach with a builder pattern
(almost) the same setup for Windows and Linux version
Uses WebView2 on Windows and WebKitGtk-6.0 on Linux
Can serve the web site via resources (single file approach)
Optional save and restore of window bounds
Has an integrated event sink mechanismen, so you can retrieve javascript events from the Rust app
Offers the possibility to serve requests from javascript to Rust
You can expand the Gtk4 Window (on Linux) with a custom header bar
You can alternatively disable the Windows titlebar and borders, and you can build a title bar in HTML with standard Windows logic for closing, maximizing, restoring resizing, snap to dock, ...

Functional approach with webview builder:

fn on_activate(app: &Application)->WebView {
    let webview = WebView::builder(app)
        .title("Website form custom resources 🦞")
        .save_bounds()
        .devtools(true)
        .webroot(include_dir!("webroots/custom_resources"))
        .query_string("?param1=123&param2=456")
        .default_contextmenu_disabled()
        .build();

     webview
}

fn main() {
    Application::new("de.uriegel.hello")
    .on_activate(on_activate)
    .run();
}

Sample of a Windows App with custom titlebar:

Prerequisites on Linux (Fedora)

sudo dnf install gtk4-devel
sudo dnf install webkitgtk6.0-devel
sudo dnf install libadwaita-devel

Prerequisites on Linux (Ubuntu)

sudo apt install libgtk-4-dev
sudo apt install libwebkitgtk-6.0-dev
sudo apt install libadwaita-1-dev

Run examples

cargo run --example hello

oder

cargo run --example hello --release

Icon in Windows

Use winres and build-script build.rs with res.set_icon(). This Icon will be the web view windows icon.

Build doc

On windows:

cargo doc --target x86_64-pc-windows-msvc --no-deps

On Linux

cargo doc --target x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu --no-deps

Branch gh-pages created

Cloned to local repository

All files deleted

Content of C:\Projekte\webview-app\target\x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\doc copies to .\doc\windows

Content of C:\Projekte\webview-app\target\x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu\doc copies to .\doc\linux

Commited changes

uriegel / webview-app