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wailsapp/wails Alternatives

desktop app development with Go and web frontend

Wails is a Go framework for building desktop applications using web technologies (HTML/CSS/JS) in a single binary.

36.0kGoMITactive · last push 1mo agoGitHub

Same job, different approach

Solves the same problem with a different architecture or at a different layer. Expect to rewrite the integration.

tauri-apps/tauriGitHub

Choose when you want a Rust backend and potentially smaller binaries; requires rewriting Go code as Rust.

Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop and mobile applications with a web frontend.

110.5k
Rust
Apache-2.0
active2mo ago
nwjs/nw.jsGitHub

Choose when you need Node.js access in the frontend or prefer Chromium's full features; heavier than Wails.

Call all Node.js modules directly from DOM/WebWorker and enable a new way of writing applications with all Web technologies.

41.2k
JavaScript
MIT
active2mo ago

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These projects were analysed and named wails among their alternatives. The relationship is not symmetric — how wails rates them is a separate judgement, made when wails is analysed in its own right.

nwjs/nw.jsGitHub

calls wails “choose when you want a Go backend and smaller binaries via system webview, instead of NW.js's Node.js/Chromium stack.”

Call all Node.js modules directly from DOM/WebWorker and enable a new way of writing applications with all Web technologies.

41.2kJavaScriptactive
lxn/walkGitHub

calls wails “choose for Go-backed desktop apps with HTML/CSS/JS frontends in a native WebView rather than walk's native widgets”

A Windows GUI toolkit for the Go Programming Language

7.1kGodormant