Embed chrome in a golang application

[Oleku Konko]

Is there anyway one can embed chrome in a golang  application?

Why ? 

- We have existing application what works well on chrome using websockets  and there is no need reinventing the wheel but the clients most likely have  Internet Explorer Installed 

 

- Instead of writing windows GUI .. that same GUI can simply be done with existing HTML , CSS , Image and Javscript 

  

Any Ideas ?

 

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

You can tell them your application depends on Chrome being installed
and fire an external process from your Go app pointing the browser to
localhost.

gustavo @ http://niemeyer.net

[bronze man]

You can use CEF with c or c++

Maybe someone can port cef to golang

[notedit]

maybe you need this https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit

2013/8/9 bronze man <bronz...@gmail.com>

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[André Moraes]

How I do it:

create a simple html page using node-webkit (this project combines
chromiun source code with nodejs)
After that html page is loaded, I use nodejs stdlibrary to fire my go
application and create a websocket to do I/O.
Everything else is done inside Go.

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[Oleku Konko]

Crazy bank policy  .. They must use windows product 

[Oleku Konko]

Nice ... are you able to customize the size and look of the window ? 

[André Moraes]

On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 8:42 AM, Oleku Konko <oleku...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Nice ... are you able to customize the size and look of the window ?

AFAIK, node-webkit have versions for windows/macos/linux.

The look and feel of the window is native, you can't tell the
diference between a node-webkit window and a win32 window.

I think you could be able to set the size of the window without any
problems, but you should check node-webkit docs to be sure.

The renderer is the same, so, if you can use chrome you should be able
to use node-webkit.

[Robert Melton]

On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 7:29 AM, bronze man <bronz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You can use CEF with c or c++
> Maybe someone can port cef to golang

Not sure that would be required, you can just tweak the CEF example
application in minor ways to run the go executable -- have them
communicate however you want (zeromq, websockets). As long as you can
build an installer to put them in the same place, should be golden.

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[bronze man]

But I do not how to write c++ in msvc... I just use some command line on that cef example application set the init url of cef to my website, set cache directorys.....

[Archos]

And if you want to use Dart to handle the UI:

http://www.paulvankeuren.com/dartio/dartio.html?utm_source=dartweekly&utm_medium=email
https://github.com/darkkiero/dartio-desktop

[Archos]

I was using a similar way to run Go applications in whatever browser although I discontinued due to that I'm more interested in use it (some day) under a stack based in Rust (with libraries of Servo to processing and rendering HTML/CSS).

[David DENG]

http://go-search.org/search?q=webkit

There are some go framework working with webkit as well.

David

[Oleku Konko]

Interesting ... have not used Dart in development before .... 

[Oleku Konko]

Good resource ... seen some few useful ones 

[Niklas Voss]

There is a discontinued project using swig to use CEF with go:

https://github.com/adieu/go-cef

[Guillermo Estrada]

Hey Andre, do you have an example of this working? I'm very interested in being able to deploy Go apps with node-webkit frontend, also... is there a way to run the go app so that you dont have a console? Just the node-webkit chrome window?

[lonn...@gmail.com]

Here is some fairly ugly code that I've used to test golang & node-webkit:
https://github.com/lonnc/golang-nw

In my case I've been trying to get all content from go and leave node with the absolute bear minimum to do - so no websocket connections to worry about just redirects to go served pages.

[Guillermo Estrada]

really liked that solution, Ill be working with this kind of setup, if this is improved, there might be a way to make it a GUI toolkit for golang, probably by bootstraping the building tool into a framework that includes node-webkit and so... dunno just brainstorming a bit.

Thnx for sharing :D