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deno bindings for webview using the webview_rust library.

Webview is a tiny cross-platform library to render web-based GUIs for desktop applications.


⚠️ This project is still in an development. Expect breaking changes.


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Example

import { Webview } from "https://deno.land/x/webview/mod.ts";

const html = `
  <html>
  <body>
    <h1>Hello from deno v${Deno.version.deno}</h1>
  </body>
  </html>
`;

const webview = new Webview();
webview.navigate(`data:text/html,${encodeURIComponent(html)}`);
webview.run();

You can run this example directly from the web:

deno run -Ar --unstable https://deno.land/x/webview/examples/local.ts

or in your development environment:

deno run -Ar --unstable examples/local.ts

you can find other examples in the examples/ directory.

Documentation

You can find the official documentation here.

Development

Prerequisites

Linux

  • webkit2gtk (to install using apt: sudo apt-get install libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev)

Building

Building on Windows requires admin privileges.

make build
# OR cargo build

Running

To run webview_deno without automatically downloading the binaries from releases you will need to use the environment variable PLUGIN_URL and set it to the path where the built binaries are located. This is usually file://./target/release.

$ make build
$ PLUGIN_URL=target/debug/
$ deno run --unstable -A examples/local.ts

Environment variables

  • PLUGIN_URL - Set a custom library URL. Defaults to the latest release assets on Github. Setting this also disables cache for plug.

Dependencies

Other

Contribution

Pull request, issues and feedback are very welcome. Code style is formatted with make fmt (which internally runs deno fmt and cargo fmt) and commit messages are done following Conventional Commits spec.

Licence

Copyright 2020-2022, the webview_deno team. All rights reserved. MIT license.