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A webrender-based UI framework with a moxie frontend

Moxie Native

Warning: This is a work in progress and not yet usable for nontrivial applications.

This is a framework for building GUI applications written in Rust. It renders using Webrender, instead of relying on other UI toolkits like Gtk or on a web browser. This gives you control over how your application looks, but may lose some native look and feel.

The front-facing API is built using Moxie, a framework for declaratively defining UI similar to React.

Features

  • Relatively small footprint (4.8MB for a hello world app).
  • Declaratively specify UI instead of manually managing state.
  • Not based on immediate mode UI.
  • Targeted towards real world desktop applications.
  • Styling system for specifying the appearance of elements.

Future plans

Example

// Get all the types and macros needed for concise code
use moxie::state;
use moxie_native::prelude::*;

define_style! {
    // Define a style for an element. Uses a proc macro for css-like syntax.
    static MY_STYLE = {
        // Easily specify units on measurements, and do simple calculations with them.
        text_size: 25 px + 1 vh,
        padding: 10 px,
        // Enums
        direction: horizontal,
        // Colors allow rgb and rgba syntax.
        background_color: rgb(66, 135, 245),
        text_color: rgb(255, 255, 255),

        // Selectors can be used to add conditional styling.
        if state: hover {
            background_color: rgb(112, 167, 255),
        }
    };
}

// This attribute is used to introduce a new nesting context, which lets the
// runtime efficiently keep track of object states over multiple renders.
#[topo::nested]
// This is the root component, which is expected to return an App element.
fn my_app() -> Node<App> {
    // Declare a state variable, this works kind of like a React useState() hook.
    let (current_count, click_count) = state(|| 0usize);

    // Clone the state so we can access it from the closure.
    let on_click = move |_: &ClickEvent| {
        // Updating the state will trigger a re-render.
        click_count.update(|count| Some(count + 1));
    };

    // The mox! macro lets us use nice syntax for declaring elements.
    // This acts like JSX in React.
    mox! {
        <app>
            <window title="Devtools Demo">
                <view>
                    // Every element has a style attribute which can be used to add a style.
                    <button style={MY_STYLE} on_click={on_click}>
                        // Text can only inside of spans. Attributes and parent-child
                        // relationships are checked at compile time to ensure validity.
                        <span>
                            "Click me! Total clicks: "
                            // Formatting can be done inline using this shorthand syntax.
                            {% "{}", current_count}
                        </span>
                    </button>
                </view>
            </window>
        </app>
    }
}

fn main() {
    // The entrypoint to the application is creating a runtime and starting it.
    let runtime = moxie_native::Runtime::new(my_app);
    runtime.start();
}

Community

Discussion about moxie-native mostly happens in the moxie Discord server: https://discord.gg/W4rMQZQ

You can find me (Tiffany#0725) there and I'll answer any questions that come up.

Images

What would a GUI crate be without screenshots.

Calc example

calc example

Readme demo example

readme_demo example

Test example

test example

License

Mozilla Public License, version 2.

Contributing

  • Agree to license your contribution under the terms of the license.
  • Follow the code of conduct.
  • Check the issues and projects tabs for things to work on, or ask me (@tiffany352).

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