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justrach/nanoui

Desktop apps in Zig, with native UI drawn on the GPU or a web frontend

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nanoui Desktop apps in Zig, with native UI drawn on the GPU or a web frontend. Meet Nano. Transparent PNG · Original paper illustration Want to see it in use? nanoterm is a terminal with a coding agent, and nanomon an activity monitor, both built on nanoui. Get started · Native UI · Web pages · Testing · Platforms · Apps · Performance · Credits Each window shows one of two kinds of interface: JavaScript, no webview. It has flexbox layout, text in a glyph atlas, animations, and views you can test without a window. On macOS it draws with Metal and CoreText, in one instanced draw call per frame. frontend calls Zig through a JavaScript client generated from your Zig types, with TypeScript declarations. Apps are single binaries. Nothing polls, so an idle app uses no CPU. You need Zig 0.17.0, plus the macOS SDK on a Mac (Xcode…

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  1. Get started
  2. A new app: nui
  3. Native UI
  4. Liquid Glass
  5. Motion
  6. Kit
  7. Web pages
  8. Testing without a window
  9. Platforms
  10. iOS
  11. Android
  12. Apps

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Desktop apps in Zig, with native UI drawn on the GPU or a web frontend

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Owner
justrach
Primary language
Zig
Stars
446
Forks
16
Open issues + pull requests
9
License
MIT
Archived
No
Default branch
main
Created
2026-10-18T09:27:46.000Z
Last push
2026-10-25T08:24:08.000Z

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