Wails: Build cross-platform applications using Go

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Post by sph » Wed, Jul 13, 2022, 10:38 AM UTC

Wails: Build cross-platform applications using Go
wails.io

Re: Wails: Build cross-platform applications using Go

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Post by howeyc » Sat, Jul 16, 2022, 6:35 PM UTC

I don't get these projects. If you're going to write an html/js app, why not just launch the web browser against the local url of your app?

Re: Wails: Build cross-platform applications using Go

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Post by skyfalldev » Sat, Jul 16, 2022, 6:42 PM UTC

howeyc wrote: post #2

I don't get these projects. If you're going to write an html/js app, why not just launch the web browser against the local url of your app?

Mostly because with Wails/Tauri/Electron, you get file system access, native code etc.

Re: Wails: Build cross-platform applications using Go

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Post by orthoxerox » Sat, Jul 16, 2022, 6:42 PM UTC

Wooby on Wails?

Re: Wails: Build cross-platform applications using Go

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Post by dewey » Sat, Jul 16, 2022, 6:53 PM UTC

howeyc wrote: post #2

I don't get these projects. If you're going to write an html/js app, why not just launch the web browser against the local url of your app?

Because you might ship this to users and just having an app for them to click on and open is a lot more user friendly than telling people to type in some localhost URL or open browser tabs with "cryptic" urls.

Re: Wails: Build cross-platform applications using Go

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Post by pjmlp » Sat, Jul 16, 2022, 6:58 PM UTC

dewey wrote: post #5

howeyc wrote: post #2

I don't get these projects. If you're going to write an html/js app, why not just launch the web browser against the local url of your app?

Because you might ship this to users and just having an app for them to click on and open is a lot more user friendly than telling people to type in some localhost URL or open browser tabs with "cryptic" urls.

Just have the application start the browser like daemons used to 20 years ago.

Nowadays they can even send the PWA manifest to hide the browser appearance.

Re: Wails: Build cross-platform applications using Go

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Post by dewey » Sat, Jul 16, 2022, 7:01 PM UTC

pjmlp wrote: post #6

dewey wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because you might ship this to users and just having an app for them to click on and open is a lot more user friendly than telling people to type in some localhost URL or open browser tabs with "cryptic" urls.

Just have the application start the browser like daemons used to 20 years ago. Nowadays they can even send the PWA manifest to hide the browser appearance.

Are we really arguing why someone might want to have a "native" app instead of a browser window? There's many reasons why someone might want to have that.

Re: Wails: Build cross-platform applications using Go

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Post by dainiusse » Sat, Jul 16, 2022, 7:03 PM UTC

howeyc wrote: post #2

I don't get these projects. If you're going to write an html/js app, why not just launch the web browser against the local url of your app?

Why would you run visual studio code in your computer?

Re: Wails: Build cross-platform applications using Go

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Post by dosshell » Sat, Jul 16, 2022, 7:04 PM UTC

It states you can use native components and that it uses webkit. How does this work? I thought native components meant using the OS gui like Win32/MFC etc. How does this work through webkit? Does webkit have Win32 bindings?

Re: Wails: Build cross-platform applications using Go

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Post by howeyc » Sat, Jul 16, 2022, 7:24 PM UTC

skyfalldev wrote: post #3

howeyc wrote: post #2

I don't get these projects. If you're going to write an html/js app, why not just launch the web browser against the local url of your app?

Mostly because with Wails/Tauri/Electron, you get file system access, native code etc.

yeah, the exe running the server (Go in the current case) has access to all that.