wailsapp / wails

Build desktop applications using Go & Web Technologies.
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## Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Features
 - Roadmap
- Getting Started
- Sponsors
- FAQ
- Stargazers over time
- Contributors
- License
- Inspiration
## Introduction
The traditional method of providing web interfaces to Go programs is via a built-in web server. Wails offers a different
approach: it provides the ability to wrap both Go code and a web frontend into a single binary. Tools are provided to
make this easy for you by handling project creation, compilation and bundling. All you have to do is get creative!
## Features
- Use standard Go for the backend
- Use any frontend technology you are already familiar with to build your UI
- Quickly create rich frontends for your Go programs using pre-built templates
- Easily call Go methods from Javascript
- Auto-generated Typescript definitions for your Go structs and methods
- Native Dialogs & Menus
- Native Dark / Light mode support
- Supports modern translucency and "frosted window" effects
- Unified eventing system between Go and Javascript
- Powerful cli tool to quickly generate and build your projects
- Multiplatform
- Uses native rendering engines - _no embedded browser_!
### Roadmap
The project roadmap may be found here. New functionality and public behaviour changes use a WEP (Wails Enhancement Proposal), submitted as a draft pull request rather than a feature-request issue.
## Getting Started
Wails has two active versions:
| Version | Status | Install | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| v2 | Stable | `go install github.com/wailsapp/wails/v2/cmd/wails@latest` | wails.io |
| v3 | Beta | `go install github.com/wailsapp/wails/v3/cmd/wails3@latest` | v3.wails.io |
Full installation instructions are available for v2 and v3.
## Sponsors
This project is supported by these kind people / companies:
## Powered By
## FAQ
- Is this an alternative to Electron?
 Depends on your requirements. It's designed to make it easy for Go programmers to make lightweight desktop
 applications or add a frontend to their existing applications. Wails does offer native elements such as menus
 and dialogs, so it could be considered a lightweight electron alternative.
- Who is this project aimed at?
 Go programmers who want to bundle an HTML/JS/CSS frontend with their applications, without resorting to creating a
 server and opening a browser to view it.
- What's with the name?
 When I saw WebView, I thought "What I really want is tooling around building a WebView app, a bit like Rails is to
 Ruby". So initially it was a play on words (Webview on Rails). It just so happened to also be a homophone of the
 English name for the Country I am from. So it stuck.
## Stargazers over time
## Contributors
The contributors list is getting too big for the readme! All the amazing people who have contributed to this
project have their own page here.