Webview

Webview is a wrapper for Webview, a tiny cross-platform webview library for C/C++ to build modern cross-platform GUIs. Webview (the wrapper) supports two-way JavaScript bindings, to call JavaScript from Nim and to call Nim from JavaScript.

Webview is also an updated wrapper for Webview for Nim than oskca's bindings, which were last updated 5 years ago and are severely out of date.

Binding Features

Similar to uing, you can also choose to whether or not compile with a DLL, static library, or to statically compile Webview sources into your executable.

To compile with a DLL, pass -d:useWebviewDll to the Nim compiler. You can also choose the name/path of the DLL with -d:webviewDll:<dll-name>.

To compile with a static library, compile with -d:useWebviewStaticLib or -d:useWebviewStaticLibrary. Similarly, you can also choose the name/path of the static library with -d:webviewStaticLibrary:<lib-name>.

Documentation

Documentation is available at https://neroist.github.io/webview

Examples

Examples can be found at examples/. Currently, it contains two examples, basic.nim, a basic example of Webview, and bind.nim, an example of calling Nim from Javascript with Webview. In addition, it also has an example application in the structure described here.

Here's basic.nim for you:

import webview

let w = newWebview() # or you can use create()

w.title = "Basic Example" # or use setTitle()
w.size = (480, 320) # or setSize()
w.html = "Thanks for using webview!" # or setHtml()

w.run()
w.destroy()

Installation

Install via Nimble:

nimble install https://github.com/neroist/webview

This package isn't in Nimble's package list, so you have to install via GitHub link.

Requirements

On Windows, Webview requires that developers and end-users must have the WebView2 runtime installed on their system for any version of Windows before Windows 11. The WebView2 SDK is installed for you, so no need to worry about that.

On Linux and BSD, Only GTK3 and WebKitGTK are required for both development and distribution. See here.

Distribution

See here in Webview's README.