Webview is a tiny cross-platform library to make web-based GUIs for desktop applications.
Platforms supported:
win64,linux,macos-x64,macos-arm64
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Install webkit2gtk dependency for linux.
Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install libwebkit2gtk-4.0-devArch Linux:
yay -S webkit2gtk -
Install
webview-bunwith trust flag to run postinstall to automatically fetch pre-built library from latest release.bun i --trust webview-bun
import { Webview } from "webview-bun";
const html = `
<html>
<body>
<h1>Hello from bun v${Bun.version} !</h1>
</body>
</html>
`;
const webview = new Webview();
webview.setHTML(html);
webview.run();For more examples, browse the examples folder of this repository.
Refer to the comments in the source code for full documentation.
Important
If you are on Windows, you need C++ Build Tools.
- Go to https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads.
- Scroll down > All Downloads > Tools for Visual Studio.
- Download Build Tools for Visual Studio 2022 and run.
- Select Desktop development with C++ and install.
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Clone the repository along with the webview submodule.
git clone --recurse-submodules --remote-submodules https://github.com/tr1ckydev/webview-bun.git cd webview-bun bun i -
Build the library for your platform.
bun run build
Tip
To use your own webview library, set the WEBVIEW_PATH environment variable with the path to your webview shared library file.
Run the following example to see it in action.
bun run examples/basic.tsFor more examples, browse the examples folder of this repository.
This repository is a port of webview_deno with various changes to work with the bun runtime and new windows build script to compile the latest webview.
This repository uses MIT license. See LICENSE for full license text.