web2app

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Intro

Convert any web page into a desktop app (but, lightweight ~3MB)

• The bundle size will be around 3MB
• Demo: https://i.imgur.com/BLr03oF.mp4

Pre-requisites

macOS

# cargo
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

Linux

You should first install the Rust toolchain

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

Then you need to install some dependencies, which depends on your Linux distribution.

sudo apt install libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev -y

sudo zypper in -y webkit2gtk3-soup2-devel

Windows

Windows Setup (x64)

• Setup Tauri Pre-Requisities for windows: https://tauri.app/v1/guides/getting-started/prerequisites#setting-up-windows

Install

cargo install web2app tauri-cli

Usages

# Run with args

web2app args -n Notion -u https://www.notion.so -i icon.png

# Run with interactive mode

web2app interactive

# 🍀 Enter Name (TestApp):
# 🍀 Enter URL (https://trello.com):
# 🍀 Enter Description (An example application.):
# 🍀 Enter Version (0.1.0):
# 🍀 Enter Author (John Doe):
# 🍀 Enter Identifier (com.example.testapp):
# 🍀 Enter Icon (icon_path.png):
# 🍀 Enter User Agent (Mozilla/5.0):

Output

• The output will be saved in $HOME/web2app_apps/<name> directory.

Roadmap

• [x] Zoom In/Out
• [x] Reload
• [x] Standard Copy/Paste
• [x] Custom User Agent
• [x] Desktop Notification (working for some apps)
• [x] Back and forward navigation
• [ ] Automatically fetch icon from website
• [ ] Dark Reader Extension (already there but, not fully working)
• [ ] Retain window size and position after restart
• [ ] Separate web2app_apps repo to host common built apps through Github Action
• [ ] File download support

Libraries

• Tauri
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