Chromely is a lightweight alternative to Electron.NET, Electron for .NET/.NET Core developers.

Chromely is a .NET/.NET Core HTML5 Chromium desktop framework. It is focused on building apps based on Xilium.CefGlue, CefSharp implementations of embedded Chromium (CEF) without WinForms or WPF, but can be extended to use WinForms or WPF. Chromely uses Windows, Linux and MacOS native GUI API as "thin" chromium hosts.

With Chromely you can build Single Page Application (SPA) HTML5 desktop apps with or without Node/npm. Building SPA apps using Blazor or javascript frameworks like Angular, React, Vue or similar is easy. You can use Visual Studio Code or any IDE you are familiar with as long as Chromely knows the entry html file from the compiled/bundled files. For more info please see - Blazor-Demos and Chromely-Apps.

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A basic Chromely project requires: - Demos

class Program
{
   [STAThread]
   static void Main(string[] args)
   {
       AppBuilder
       .Create()
       .UseApp<ChromelyBasicApp>()
       .Build()
       .Run(args);
    }
}

Get started with our demos.

• CEF - https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef
• CefSharp - https://github.com/cefsharp/CefSharp

Contributions are always welcome, via PRs, issues raised, or any other means. To become a dedicated contributor, please contact the Chromely team or raise an issue mentioning your intent.

Chromely is MIT licensed. For dependency licenses please see.

Thanks to JetBrains for the OSS license of Resharper Ultimate.

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