isomorphic-crystal-lib
Isomorphic Crystal GUI
GUI lib for Crystal-lang allowing for developing simple desktop apps using Crystal-lang.
- Expressive (JSX-like).
- Concise (it's like writing HTML).
- Modular (A custom visual widget can include other custom widgets)
- Stylable using regular CSS.
- Easy layout coding.
- Easy state management of the app.
- Ajax support.
Built on :
- Blueprint: https://github.com/stephannv/blueprint
- Webview for Crystal : https://github.com/naqvis/webview
- Pico CSS : https://picocss.coma
- HTMX : https://github.com/bigskysoftware/htmx
- Crystal (Crystal-lang) : https://crystal-lang.org
Dependencies on Linux (or MingW):
- libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev
- libgtk : gtk+-3.0 (See your package manager for instructions ("apt-get" or "yum" or "pacman", or other, depending upon your linux distribution))
Updates / news :
https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/isomorphic-crystal-updates/6007
Installation / usage
See: https://github.com/serge-hulne/isomorphic-crystal-examples
Usage
The aim is to provide a portable GUI library which will allows developers to code desktop apps in Crystal.
- One goal is to make it as easy to use as Tkinter for Python.
- Another goal is portability across platforms (Linux, Mac, Windows)
- Another goal is to make it easy to distribute : The only dependency is Webview for Crystal. The app is simply one (binary executable) file.
- The library uses Crystal, HTML, CSS and Webmin, internally but developers using the library only need to master Crystal (no HTML, CSS, JS knowledge required).
- The author expects to develop a fairly complete set of widgets, to match the most commonly used HTML tags, once the initial tests are conclusive.
GUI lib for Crystal-lang allowing for developing simple desktop apps using Crystal only. Zero dependencies.
Examples
https://github.com/serge-hulne/isomorphic-crystal-examples
illustrations
Layouts / Styling / Customisation
To experiment with layouts, graphical appearance, the CSS which is used is pico.css (provided in the module: pico.cr), therefore most of the features of pico.css are available in the current version of the framework.
Contributing
- Fork it (https://github.com/your-github-user/gui_1/fork)
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b my-new-feature
) - Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Add some feature'
) - Push to the branch (
git push origin my-new-feature
) - Create a new Pull Request
Contributors
- Serge Hulne - creator and maintainer
pico.cr is based on pico.css (https://picocss.com)
Repository
isomorphic-crystal-lib
Owner
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- October 13, 2023
License
MIT License
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