Chromely is a lightweight alternative to Electron.NET, Electron for .NET/.NET Core developers.
Chromely is a .NET/.NET Core HTML5 Chromium desktop framework. It is focused on building apps based on Xilium.CefGlue, CefSharp implementations of embedded Chromium (CEF) without WinForms or WPF, but can be extended to use WinForms or WPF. Chromely uses Windows, Linux and MacOS native GUI API as "thin" chromium hosts.
With Chromely you can build Single Page Application (SPA) HTML5 desktop apps with or without Node/npm. Building SPA apps using javascript frameworks like Angular, React, Vue or similar is easy. You can use Visual Studio Code or any IDE you are familiar with as long as Chromely knows the entry html file from the compiled/bundled files. For more info please see - Chromely-Apps.
Options of communicating (IPC) with rendering process are via:
- Generic Message Routing - more info @ Generic Message Routing.
- Ajax HTTP/XHR - more info @ Custom Scheme Handling.
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Platforms
Cross-platform -Windows, Linux, MacOS. Built on CEF, CefGlue, NET Standard 2.0, .NET Core 3.0, .NET Framework 4.61 and above.
- Windows(1) 32-bit
- Windows(1) 64-bit
- Linux(2) 32-bit
- Linux(2) 64-bit
- MacOSX(3) 64-bit
- Linux ARM(4)
(1) Windows 7, Service Pack 1 and newer
(2) Ubuntu 16.04 and newer
(Mono currently not working)
(3) Tested on macOS Mojave 10.14.6 (Other versions will likely work too)
(4) i.e. Raspberry Pi 3+
(manual download of CEF builds for ARM available on http://chromely.org/cefbuilds/index.html)
Demo Code
Get started with the Demos.
Creating a Simple App
For more info see - Getting Started
A basic Chromely project requires:
class Program
{
[STAThread]
static void Main(string[] args)
{
AppBuilder
.Create()
.UseApp<DemoChromelyApp>()
.Build()
.Run(args);
}
}
Chromely Demos
For more info on demos - Demos
References
- CEF - https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef
- Xilium.CefGlue - https://gitlab.com/xiliumhq/chromiumembedded/cefglue
- Caliburn.Light Container - https://caliburnmicro.com/documentation/simple-container
Contributing
Contributions are always welcome, via PRs, issues raised, or any other means. To become a dedicated contributor, please contact the Chromely team or raise an issue mentioning your intent.
License
Chromely is MIT licensed. For dependency licenses please see.
Credits
Thanks to JetBrains for the OSS license of Resharper Ultimate.
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