Thrust

Thrust is a cross-platform (Linux, OSX, Windows) application shell bindable from any language. It is designed to ease the creation, packaging and distribution of cross-platform native desktop appplication.

Thrust embeds Chromium Content API and exposes its API through a local JSON RPC server listening on unix domain socket. Through the use of a language library, developers can control Thrust and create shell window, sessions, menus, etc...

Thrust also come with support for the <webview> tag allowing the execution of remote pages in a entirely secure setting.

Thrust will be used by next releases of Breach.

[Thurst Architecture]

              (Platform)                        (Client Implementation)
                                                                       
                                           #
                   +------------------+    #        +-----------------------+
                   |   Cocoa / Aura   |    #    +---|  shell3: (HTML/JS)    |
                   +---------+--------+    #    |  +-----------------------++
                             |             #    +--|  shell2: (HTML/JS)    |
+----------------+ +---------+--------+    #    | +-----------------------++
|                +-+   Thrust (C++)   +---------+-+  shell1: (HTML/JS)    |
|  Content  API  | +---------+--------+    #      +-----------------------+
|                |           |             #                 | (TCP/FS)      
|  (Blink / v8)  | +---------+--------+    #      +-----------------------+
|                | +   JSON RPC srv   +-----------+ Client App (any Lang) |
+----------------+ +------------------+    #      +-----------------------+
                                           #

Building Thrust

First you'll need to make sure you have the Chromium depot_tools installed. Check out the instructions here: Install depot_tools

Then you can build with the following commands:

./scripts/boostrap.py                                

GYP_GENERATORS=ninja gyp --depth . thrust_shell.gyp
ninja -C out/Debug thrust_shell -j 1

Note that bootstrap.py may take some time as it checks out brightray and downloads libchromiumcontent for your platform.

Testing

Thrust currently is testable only manually by running the thrust_shell executable and runnin thrust-node library's test.js file.

Getting Involved

• Mailing list: breach-dev@googlegroups.com
• IRC Channel: #breach on Freenode