joseluisq / vlang-ui

Cross-platform UI library written in V

V UI 0.0.2

ui.window(
    width:    600
    height:   400
    title:    'V UI Demo'
    children: [
        ui.row(
            stretch: true
            margin:  {10, 10, 10, 10}
            children: [
                ui.column(
                    width:   200
                    spacing: 13
                    children: [
                        ui.textbox(
                            max_len:     20
                            width:       200
                            placeholder: 'First name'
                        )
                        ui.textbox(
                            max_len:     50
                            width:       200
                            placeholder: 'Last name'
                        )
                    ]
                )
            ]
        )
    ]
)

Installation

v up
v install ui

Running the examples

cd examples
v run users.v
v run temperature.v
v run ...

This is pre-alpha software.

V UI is a cross-platform UI toolkit written in the V programming language for Windows, macOS, Linux, and soon Android, iOS and the web (JS/WASM). V UI uses native widgets on Windows and macOS, on all other platforms the widgets are drawn by V UI. Right now only the non-native widgets are available.

This is a very early version of the library, lots of features are missing, lots of things will change.

The API is declarative, and there will be hot reloading, similar to SwiftUI and Flutter.

On Linux, V UI will be a full-featured lightweight alternative to GTK and Qt.

0.1 roadmap

Discord: #v-ui channel

Documentation will be available soon. In the meantime use the examples as the documentation. The framework is very simple and straightforward.

Dependencies

Binaries built with V UI will have no dependencies.

To develop V UI apps, you need to install V, glfw and freetype. glfw dependency will soon be removed.

macOS:
brew install glfw freetype

Debian/Ubuntu:
sudo apt install libglfw3 libglfw3-dev libfreetype6-dev

Arch/Manjaro:
sudo pacman -S glfw-x11 freetype2

Fedora:
sudo dnf install glfw glfw-devel freetype-devel

ClearLinux:
sudo swupd bundle-add devpkg-libX11 devpkg-mesa devpkg-freetype devpkg-glfw3

Windows:
v setup-freetype

License

V UI is licensed under GPL3. A commercial license will be available. Open-source projects will have access to the commercial license for free. Every single feature will be open-sourced right away and available under both licenses. At some point in the future the library will be relicensed under MIT.

Contributing

After the first contribution you will be asked to agree to a CLA, declaring that you have the right to, and actually do, grant us the rights to use your contribution.