Newtonium

Note

NOW WITH GRAVITY RENDERER (allows you to use React components and replaces web wrapper for GTK components)

Important

This project is in a very early development stage. Everything can change and nothing is guaranteed to work.

Note

We are currently switching to native rendering using our own React renderer and GTK, more info available here and here

The current source code is not well written, managed, or documented. This will change in the future, as I need to have basic framework as soon as possible.

TypeScript and Rust based framework for building desktop applications using TypeScript and React. Newtonium is built on GTK, Rust and Bun (with React using our own renderer - Gravity), so it should be significantly faster and lighter than Electron.

Before you start

Note, that newtonium currently only supports development and building for Linux and Windows, MacOS support is planned in distant future.

You will also need to get the following dependencies:

• bun
• npm
• Gtk development libraries (linux only)

Getting started

To get started with Newtonium, you first need to install our main library, which includes the CLI.

npm install -g newtonium

This will take a while, because it needs to download the binaries, but you can add --foreground-scripts flag to track the progress.

Creating a new project

To create a new project, you can use the following command:

newtonium init my-app

This will create a folder with the new project, install all dependencies and setup everything needed.

Running the project

You can run the development server using the following command (start in the project folder):

bun run start

Building the project

You can build the project using the following command:

newtonium build

This will create a binary, which you can run and distribute.

Project structure

• src - Contains the source code of the project
• newtonium.config.mjs - Configuration file for the project

MORE INFO ON GITHUB: MartinGamesCZ/Newtonium

Planned features (in no particular order)

• MacOS support
• Mobile support
• Better documentation
• More examples
• More components
• Font manager
• OpenGL canvas and custom bindings
• Custom devtools
• Shared core for all apps on same machine

Let me know

If you featured Newtonium in your project, please let me know, I would love to see it.

If you have featured Newtonium in some article, or video, please let me know, I would love to see it.

Contact me

You can find my contact information on my GitHub profile.

Authors

• Martin Petr

Support me

If you want to support me, you can give this project a star on GitHub. You can also donate me (if you want to, please contact me).

License

This project is licensed under the LGPL-2.1 License. See the LICENSE file for details.

I want this to be a free and open-source project, so everyone can use it. If you want to use it in a commercial project, you can (It would be kind to at least donate).

TL;DR - Use it as you want, but don't sell and/or distribute it as your own and don't blame me for anything.