Show HN: Svelte NodeGUI, a lightweight Electron alternative with native UI

Post by ComputerGuru » Fri, Mar 05, 2021, 8:52 PM UTC

LinguaBrowse wrote: post #7

Gys wrote: post #4

> core set of platform agnostic native widgets This is confusing for me. I think such a framework is either 'platform agnostic' OR 'native'. Maybe the API is platform agnostic and the rendering is done natively?

That’s the case, yes – the UI runtime is Qt5 (which is rendered using low-level graphics APIs, so we class it as “native” – mostly in contrast to WebView-based UIs), and it’s the same API regardless of which platform you’re running on.

Post by ComputerGuru » Fri, Mar 05, 2021, 8:55 PM UTC

LinguaBrowse wrote: post #9

boromi wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any Win 10 fluent examples? Perhaps WinUI integation?

The parent project, NodeGUI, has some Windows screenshots and examples – I’m not familiar enough with Fluent or WinUI, but basically the UI runtime is Qt5, so integrating it into genuine Windows apps is out of scope (but may well be possible with the right expertise). I assume it would involve some kind of Qt-hosting view. I’m unsure whether Qt5 can host Windows UI components. Edit: NodeGUI here: https://github.com/n…

Post by avel » Fri, Mar 05, 2021, 8:58 PM UTC

ComputerGuru wrote: post #11

LinguaBrowse wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s the case, yes – the UI runtime is Qt5 (which is rendered using low-level graphics APIs, so we class it as “native” – mostly in contrast to WebView-based UIs), and it’s the same API regardless of which platform you’re running on.

I saw Qt and immediately understood what you were trying to say, but for the record: That’s not what native means. Native means “uses the platform widgets and drawing/theming api” and Qt is not native: it actually draws its own widgets (for the most part with certain exceptions on certain platforms) that are drawn to mimic the system UI with subtle differences. If the system UI implementation suddenly changes (say wi…

Post by LinguaBrowse » Fri, Mar 05, 2021, 9:00 PM UTC

nguyenkien wrote: post #5

LinguaBrowse wrote: post #2

Maintainer here – Happy to answer any questions!

Off topic, any plan to make ot work with react native?

Post by danenania » Fri, Mar 05, 2021, 9:02 PM UTC

tpmx wrote: post #16

So is it Chromium-based or not? "which makes it CPU- and memory-efficient when compared to other Chromium-based solutions like Electron"