sidevesh/quark-go

Convert any web app into native app, without electron, written in go

Project Quark for Go

Convert any web app into native app, which uses system's inbuilt webview,
Bundle any web project into native app and loads offline,
You can call go functions from the web app to achieve native functionality,
lightweight alternative to electron Uses the awesome webview project by zserge

Usage

Build a web project into app

• Make sure you have go and node present, you may also use the docker-compose files present in the package instead
• Clone the project
• Create config.go specifiying the configuration for the app window, use config.go.example as template
• Put the web app source code in folder called web, make sure its an npm project with build and start scripts in package.json and it builds out the project to build folder with an index.html at root, also make sure that when project is run locally with npm start we can change the local port using env var PORT, create-react-app was considered as an example for this setup
• You can change the build_web_app.sh and run.sh if this doesn't match your setup
• Run run.sh to run your app during development
• Run build.sh to build out the app in build folder that can then be bundled and distributed

Convert existing web app

• Make sure you have go present, you may also use the docker-compose files present in the package instead
• Clone the project
• Create config.go specifiying the configuration for the app window, use config.go.example as template
• Just run webapp.sh with two arguments, url of the web app and the name for app binary
• Example sh webapp.sh https://trello.com Trello
• This will build out a binary in build folder

Limitations

• Since this uses the operating system's webview the behavior is inconsistent