Playing around with native webviews.
This project is broken up into several pieces. projects which are client and launcher, and deps. deps contains several customized libraries for this project. (E.g. Mods on existing libraries for compatibility reasons.)
The client is a react application.
It uses the hashrouter (see below) and webpack. In production, all resources are inlined using data urls https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Basics_of_HTTP/Data_URIs.
This allows for embedded of the entire application UI into a single file - and can be embedded into the binary.
The hashrouter is used because we don't want the webview to make any actual network requests for navigation.
The launcher is simply a rust launcher around native webview for Windows, Linux, and Mac. The rust code itself is further another wrapper around C++ code webview.
I have made a few mods for compatibility issues (primarily on windows).
Currently, the rust application launches a webview and navigates the webview to localhost:4040. The client server should be running on that port.