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) |
+----------------+ +------------------+    #      +-----------------------+
                                           #

Using Thrust

To use thrust you need to rely on a binding library for your language of choice. Libraries are currently available for Go and NodeJS.

Thrust is supported on Linux, MacOSX and Windows.

NodeJS

Simply install node-thrust as any other package. At postinstall a binary image of thrust is downloaded for your platform (form this repository's releases downloads)

require('node-thrust')(function(err, api) {
  api.window({
    root_url: 'https://www.google.com/',
    size: {
      width: 1024,
      height: 768
    }
  }).show(function(err) {
    console.log('WINDOW CREATED');
  })
});

See breach/node-thrust for more details.

Go

[TODO]

See miketheprogrammer/go-thrust for more details.

Building Thrust

You'll need to have python and git installed. You can then boostrap the project with:

./scripts/boostrap.py                                

Build both the Release and Debug target with the following commands:

./scripts/update.py
./scripts/build.py

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

Getting Involved

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