Browser Window is a simple Rust crate for utilizing a browser engine to create a graphical user interface. Just like Electron, you can build your GUI with HTML/CSS/JS, or simply have some browser functionality. Browser Window was born from the lack of a good and simple Electron alternative for Rust.
Browser Window aims to be cross-platform, very simple, and straight forward. Some methods in Browser Window are asynchronous, such as evaluating JavaScript code and getting back its output. Browser Window utilizes and benefits from Rust's async/await syntax, so this should make it a breeze.
Moreover, if you want to use it in a multi-threaded environment, you can. There are thread-safe handles available for easy exchange of data and work between the GUI thread and others.
You can view an example of a terminal emulator, to see how easily a GUI with Browser Window can be made.
At this moment, Windows is the only supported platform, but support for other platforms will follow.
Also, Browser Window relies on the Chromium Embedding Framework.
Click here for a manual on how to set up everything that's needed to use Browser Window.
At the moment, Browser Window is experiencing issues with the docs.rs site to get its documentation to show up properly.
Therefore, if you want to start using Browser Window, you can clone the git repository and run cargo doc --open --all-features to get the documentation you need.
This software is available as open source software under a MIT license, for maximum freedom.
If you want to help out, you're more than welcome! I could use some help with implementing MacOS support actually.
At the moment, only basic functionality is available, but there is more to come. These are the features that are awaiting implementation: