playground-gtk-javascript

Exploring ways to run JavaScript apps with GTK (Linux)

• GNOME/gjs - Custom runtime built on top of SpiderMonkey (Firefox JS engine) and GTK bindings
  • cgjs/cgjs - Shim of Node.js API for it
• Place1/node-gir - Native module for Node.js with GTK bindings
• PaulBGD/node-desktop - Native module for Node.js with manual GTK bindings via ffi

React implementations

• selaux/react-gtk - for gjs
• Place1/react-native-gtk - for node-gir

Available apps

• All GNOME org on GitHub - search by org:GNOME language:js
• makepost/acme-commander - GTK/Inferno native twin-panel file manager for Ubuntu

Examples

Install

$ git submodule update --init
$ yarn install

Related

• https://github.com/Kazhnuz/awesome-gnome
• https://github.com/ewnd9/cgjs-examples

Other languages

• Python
  • http://www.pygtk.org/
  • https://python-gtk-3-tutorial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
• Ruby
  • https://iridakos.com/tutorials/2018/01/25/creating-a-gtk-todo-application-with-ruby
    • https://github.com/iridakos/gtk-todo-tutorial
    • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16340126
  • https://rubygems.org/gems/gtk3
    • https://github.com/ruby-gnome2/ruby-gnome2/tree/master/gtk3
• Golang
  • https://github.com/gotk3/gotk3
  • https://github.com/mattn/go-gtk
• Rust
  • https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk
• Vala
  • https://github.com/elementary

Bindings Documentation

• http://devdocs.baznga.org/
  • https://github.com/ptomato/devdocs
• https://lazka.github.io/pgi-docs/
  • https://github.com/pygobject/pgi-docgen

License

CC0.