wails

FAQ

• Is this an alternative to Electron?

  Depends on your requirements. It's designed to make it easy for Go programmers to make lightweight desktop applications or add a frontend to their existing applications. Wails does offer native elements such as menus and dialogs, so it could be considered a lightweight electron alternative.

• Who is this project aimed at?

  Go programmers who want to bundle an HTML/JS/CSS frontend with their applications, without resorting to creating a server and opening a browser to view it.

• What's with the name?

  When I saw WebView, I thought "What I really want is tooling around building a WebView app, a bit like Rails is to Ruby". So initially it was a play on words (Webview on Rails). It just so happened to also be a homophone of the English name for the Country I am from. So it stuck.

Stargazers over time

Contributors

The contributors list is getting too big for the readme! All the amazing people who have contributed to this project have their own page here.

License

Inspiration

This project was mainly coded to the following albums:

• Manic Street Preachers - Resistance Is Futile
• Manic Street Preachers - This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours
• The Midnight - Endless Summer
• Gary Newman - Savage (Songs from a Broken World)
• Steve Vai - Passion & Warfare
• Ben Howard - Every Kingdom
• Ben Howard - Noonday Dream
• Adwaith - Melyn
• Gwidaith Hen Fran - Cedors Hen Wrach
• Metallica - Metallica
• Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
• Maxthor - Another World
• Alun Tan Lan - Y Distawrwydd