Build small, fast and modern cross-platform desktop apps with C++ & Web Technologies

Documentation

The documentation can be found here.

Examples

Examples can be found here.

Getting started

Learn how to create your first saucer app here.

Community

Get in touch: Discord, Matrix

Mirrors

Saucer is available on: GitHub, Codeberg

Saucer is a modern C++ webview library that allows you to build cross-platform desktop applications with ease.
It supports all three major desktop operating systems (Windows, Linux, MacOS) and has several backend implementations.

• ⚖️ FOSS

  Licensed under MIT!

• 🪶 Lightweight

  By using the operating systems native web renderer¹, it is possible to create binaries as small as ~250KB

• 🔀 Seamless C++ / JavaScript interoperability

  Convenient API (powered by reflection) to evaluate JavaScript Code or expose C++ functions to JavaScript!
  > Example

• 👾 Feature-Rich

  Supports custom schemes, script injection, favicons, and much more!

• ㊗️ Unicode Support

• 🚀 Coroutine Support

  See Code Example below!

• 📦 Supports Embedding Frontend into binary

  Ship a contained binary with ease!
  > Documentation

• 🦺 Thread-Safe

• 🧨 No Exceptions²

  Compiles with -fno-exceptions!

• 🏃 No RTTI

  Compiles with -fno-rtti!

• 🪟 Built-in support for frame-less windows and transparency

  Supports data-webview attributes to allow effortless custom title-bars.
  > Documentation

• 🧰 Customizable

  Exposes platform specific implementations, making it possible to tweak the library to your hearts content!
  > Documentation

  Saucer also provides official extensions in the form of modules:

  Module	Description
  saucer/desktop	📂 File-Picker, Mouse-Position retrieval and URI-Launch support > Example
  saucer/pdf	📄 Export current page as PDF > Example
  saucer/loop	🛞 "Legacy"3 loop implementation > Example

• 💻 Supports various backends

  Platform	Backends
  Windows	Win32 & WebView2	Qt + QWebEngine
  Linux	GTK4 & WebKitGtk
  MacOS	Cocoa & WKWebView

• 🏗️ Bindings

  Saucer also exposes a C-Interface, thus making it possible to write bindings for it in your favorite language!

  Language	Repository
  Java	https://github.com/saucer/saucer4j
  PHP	https://github.com/boson-php
  Rust	https://github.com/skjsjhb/saucers

  Please note: All bindings are community maintained!

• 🦥 ... and more!

CPMFindPackage(
  NAME           saucer
  VERSION        8.0.2
  GIT_REPOSITORY "https://github.com/saucer/saucer"
)

FetchContent_Declare(
  saucer 
  GIT_TAG v8.0.2
  GIT_REPOSITORY "https://github.com/saucer/saucer" 
)

FetchContent_MakeAvailable(saucer)

target_link_libraries(<target> saucer::saucer)

See the documentation for more information!

#include <print>
#include <saucer/smartview.hpp>

coco::stray start(saucer::application *app)
{
    auto window  = saucer::window::create(app).value();
    auto webview = saucer::smartview::create({.window = window});

    window->set_title("Hello World!");
    window->set_size({.w = 800, .h = 600});

    webview->expose("add_demo", [&](double a, double b) -> coco::task<double>
    {
        co_return a + b + *co_await webview->evaluate<double>("Math.random()");
    });

    auto index = saucer::url::from("index.html");

    if (!index.has_value())
    {
        co_return std::println("{}", index.error());
    }

    webview->set_url(index.value());
    window->show();

    co_await app->finish();
}

int main()
{
    return saucer::application::create({.id = "example"})->run(start);
}

🔍 See more examples!

Saucer is a passion project and I develop it in my free-time. If you'd like to support me, consider sponsoring my tea-addiction 🫂

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Saucer is 100% human written. No AI-Tools were used in the development process.