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Is it by any chance an Electron app?

by aaaaaaaaaaab 4y ago

lytedev 4y ago
Since Livebook is a web app, I would assume so.
- spiderice 4y ago
  I just installed it and it actually doesn't use Electron. It's basically just a local web server that runs on your computer, and opens a browser tab in your default browser pointing to http://localhost:60904/ http://localhost:60904/
  - dmix 4y ago
    On macOS this is a great app for turning browser web apps like these into dedicated 'apps': https://www.bzgapps.com/unite https://www.bzgapps.com/unite I use it with YNAB
    - dugmartin 4y ago
      Or Fluid which is free except for a few features which cost $5 (https://fluidapp.com/ https://fluidapp.com/)
ch4s3 4y ago
It uses an erlang binding for wxWidgets[1]. [1]https://www.wxwidgets.org/ https://www.wxwidgets.org/
- lvass 4y ago
  What for? The Livebook interface is built with Phoenix Liveview.
  - ch4s3 4y ago
    The window it runs in.
    - lvass 4y ago
      Is this required in some OS and not another? A comment in this thread claims it just uses a browser tab.
      - ch4s3 4y ago
        It's used for the desktop app, as you can see here[1]. [1] https://github.com/livebook-dev/livebook/blob/355527f7e8034ef96a0ff1d7a27c5a30745585ae/lib/livebook_app.ex https://github.com/livebook-dev/livebook/blob/355527f7e8034e...
        powersurge360 4y ago
        Thanks for linking this. I was interested in how it worked but I didn't know enough elixir to get around the codebase by myself. This entry point is very informative for how they managed to do it. I just looked at the macOS part, but the tl;dr for that is they seem to have compiled the elixir program into a binary and wrote enough swift to manage the lifecycle of the elixir program and signed it and notarized it and prepared it for shipment using CLI via shell! invocations. I didn't look at the windows way of doing things but I imagine it's similar.
        ch4s3 4y ago
        No problem! The pr here[1] is also instructive, and here is the one for windows[2]. It seems similar-ish. [1] https://github.com/livebook-dev/livebook/pull/865/files https://github.com/livebook-dev/livebook/pull/865/files [2] https://github.com/livebook-dev/livebook/pull/1032/files https://github.com/livebook-dev/livebook/pull/1032/files

Is it by any chance an Electron app?

lytedev 4y ago

Since Livebook is a web app, I would assume so.

spiderice 4y ago
I just installed it and it actually doesn't use Electron. It's basically just a local web server that runs on your computer, and opens a browser tab in your default browser pointing to http://localhost:60904/ http://localhost:60904/
- dmix 4y ago
  On macOS this is a great app for turning browser web apps like these into dedicated 'apps': https://www.bzgapps.com/unite https://www.bzgapps.com/unite I use it with YNAB
  - dugmartin 4y ago
    Or Fluid which is free except for a few features which cost $5 (https://fluidapp.com/ https://fluidapp.com/)

ch4s3 4y ago

It uses an erlang binding for wxWidgets[1]. [1]https://www.wxwidgets.org/ https://www.wxwidgets.org/

lvass 4y ago
What for? The Livebook interface is built with Phoenix Liveview.
- ch4s3 4y ago
  The window it runs in.
  - lvass 4y ago
    Is this required in some OS and not another? A comment in this thread claims it just uses a browser tab.
    - ch4s3 4y ago
      It's used for the desktop app, as you can see here[1]. [1] https://github.com/livebook-dev/livebook/blob/355527f7e8034ef96a0ff1d7a27c5a30745585ae/lib/livebook_app.ex https://github.com/livebook-dev/livebook/blob/355527f7e8034e...
      - powersurge360 4y ago
        Thanks for linking this. I was interested in how it worked but I didn't know enough elixir to get around the codebase by myself. This entry point is very informative for how they managed to do it. I just looked at the macOS part, but the tl;dr for that is they seem to have compiled the elixir program into a binary and wrote enough swift to manage the lifecycle of the elixir program and signed it and notarized it and prepared it for shipment using CLI via shell! invocations. I didn't look at the windows way of doing things but I imagine it's similar.
        ch4s3 4y ago
        No problem! The pr here[1] is also instructive, and here is the one for windows[2]. It seems similar-ish. [1] https://github.com/livebook-dev/livebook/pull/865/files https://github.com/livebook-dev/livebook/pull/865/files [2] https://github.com/livebook-dev/livebook/pull/1032/files https://github.com/livebook-dev/livebook/pull/1032/files