nativefier

Create native apps for your favourite websites.

Inspired by jiahaog/nativefier.

Features

• Tiny generated app size, 3MB instead of 80MB
• Native webviews (Webkit, MSHTML) instead of bundling a whole browser (looking at you, Electron)
• MacOS (Windows and Linux planned)
• Standalone binary which does not require a toolchain (unlike jiahaog/nativefier which requires the nodejs toolchain)

Caveats

• Compatibility with websites is dependent on the built-in webview for the OS

Structure

• gui contains the frontend code which is compiled to wasm.
• webview serves the gui, connecting it to nativefier core and the OS.
• nativefier is the core logic that produces the bundle.

Key Components

• Delineate between execution modes (bundle vs bundler).
• Detect appropriate icon for website.
• Support common web icon formats.
  • png
  • ico
  • svg
• Support icon override.
• Replace dependency icns with icns-rs for pure Rust goodness.
• Create simple and elegant GUI (make nativefier accessible to those that can't use the command line).
• Integrate with chrome via the Chrome DevTools Protocol.
• Integrate with this icon repository.
• Inject JS/CSS for customisable experience.

ie11 GUI with asmjs-unknown-emscripten

• Needs polyfil for Math.random()
• It seems like my prepended js "runtime.js" is NOT being prepended/activated
• ??