https://github.com/justinmichaud/ion

Rust GUI Framework demo - Like electron, but using native rust + servo
https://github.com/justinmichaud/ion

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Rust GUI Framework demo - Like electron, but using native rust + servo

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/justinmichaud/ion
• Owner: justinmichaud
• Created: 2018-01-25T16:27:49.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2018-10-21T18:09:39.000Z (about 6 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-01T22:58:13.380Z (3 months ago)
• Language: Rust
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• Size: 2.65 MB
• Stars: 51
• Watchers: 9
• Forks: 4
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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## Ion - An Oxidized Electron

Proof of concept for building native html/css/rust apps using servo. Ideally, this would be like electron, but with rust/servo instead of javascript/webkit

## Progress

This is one big massive hack, and will probably never be completed.

## Structure

See [app.rs](src/app.rs) for the meat of the application. You simply provide a render function that takes a state and produces an immutable dom tree.

Everything else is library code that does not need to be duplicated.

## Pictures:

![todo.png](todo.png)

To build:

Download my fork of servo, https://github.com/justinmichaud/servo to ../servo

On Mac, build as normal with cargo:

```

cargo run --release

```

On Fedora 27, I needed to use these env flags to get glutin to work. This seems to be some mesa bug, which should be fixed soon.

Also, for some reason, on Fedora a release build crashes with SIGILL

```

RUST_BACKTRACE=full

WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-1

```

## TODO:

- Find a way to not mutilate servo's encapsulation

- Support embedding css with an element

- Add an html template macro

- Native file menu, open/save file dialog

- OpenGL support: Allow overlaying opengl content, maybe hook into window.present callback? Canvas integration would be nice.

To upgrade servo:

change cargo.toml, then `cp -r ../servo/resources . && cp ../servo/Cargo.lock . && cp ../servo/rust-toolchain .`