webview_deno

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

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

Example Image

Installation

Webview is published to jsr.io and deno.land. The recommended way to use it is to use JSR:

deno add @webview/webview

or without the CLI:

import { Webview } from "jsr:@webview/webview";

Example

import { Webview } from "@webview/webview";

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

Make sure to init the webview submodule with:

$ git submodule update --init --recursive

Building on Windows requires admin privileges.

$ deno task 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.

$ deno task build
$ PLUGIN_URL=./build/
$ deno run --unstable -A examples/local.ts

$ deno task run examples/local.ts

or if you have the webview library already built and didn’t make any changes to it, you can skip the building step with:

$ deno task run:fast 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

plug
webview

Other

Contribution

Pull request, issues and feedback are very welcome. Code style is formatted with deno task fmt, linted with deno task lint and commit messages are done following Conventional Commits spec.