Build 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.

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.

• 💻 Cross Platform

  	Windows	Linux	MacOS
  Backend	Win32 & WebView2	GTK4 & WebKitGtk	Cocoa & WKWebView
  	Qt5 / Qt6 & QWebEngine

• 👾 Feature-Rich

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

• 🔀 Seamless C++ / JavaScript interoperability

• 📦 Supports Embedding Frontend into binary

• 🪶 Lightweight

  By using the operating systems native web renderer (or a commonly used one), it is possible to create binaries as small as ~250KB

• 🧰 Customizability

  Modules allow access to platform specific implementations, making it possible to tweak the library to your hearts content

  • Official Modules

    • 🖥️ saucer/desktop

      📂 File-Picker and URI-Launch support

    • 🖨️ saucer/pdf

      📄 Print current page as PDF

• 🏗️ Bindings

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

• 🦺 Thread-Safe

• 🧨 No Exceptions

  Compiles with -fno-exceptions!

• 🏃 No RTTI

  Compiles with -fno-rtti!

• ⚖️ FOSS

  Licensed under MIT!

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

• ... and more!

#include <saucer/smartview.hpp>

int main()
{
    auto app = saucer::application::init({
        .id = "example",
    });

    saucer::smartview webview{{
        .application = app,
    }};

    webview.set_size(900, 700);
    webview.set_title("Hello World!");

    webview.expose(
        "add_random",
        [&](float number)
        {
            auto random = webview.evaluate<float>("Math.random()").get();
            return number + random;
        },
        saucer::launch::async);

    webview.set_file("index.html");
    
    webview.show();
    app->run();

    return 0;
}