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Chromium-based cross-platform / cross-language application framework

Thrust is require/import-able, it lets you distribute NodeJS, Go or Python GUI apps directly through their native package managers.

Thrust is based on Chromium's Content Module and is supported on Linux, MacOSX and Windows:

Screenshot of Thrust Getting Started example running on each major platform.

Thrust will be powering the next versions of Breach

To better understand what Thrust can do, check out JankyBrowser by @morganrallen, the cross-platform browser that fits in a gist:

npm install -g \
  https://gist.github.com/morganrallen/f07f59802884bcdcad4a/download

• Language bindings
  • NodeJS
  • Go
  • Python
• API Reference
• Architecture
• Community
  • Request for API
  • List of Thrust Users
  • Thrust 7.5k Contest
  • Getting Involved
• Features & Roadmap
• Building Thrust from Sources

Thrust's binary distribution exposes its API on the standard IO and language specific library packages automatically download the binary distribution at installation. Thrust is based on Chromium's content module and uses web-pages as its GUI.

All these Getting Started example work as is on each major platform (MacOSX, Windows, Linux)

First install with npm install node-thrust

require('node-thrust')(function(err, api) { 
  api.window({ root_url: 'https://breach.cc' }).show();
});

• node-thrust breach/node-thrust

First download with go get -u github.com/miketheprogrammer/go-thrust/

package main

import (
	"github.com/miketheprogrammer/go-thrust/dispatcher"
	"github.com/miketheprogrammer/go-thrust/spawn"
	"github.com/miketheprogrammer/go-thrust/window"
)

func main() {
	spawn.Run()
	thrustWindow := window.NewWindow("http://breach.cc/", nil)
	thrustWindow.Show()
	thrustWindow.Maximize()
	thrustWindow.Focus()
	dispatcher.RunLoop()
}

• go-thrust: miketheprogrammer/go-thrust

First install with pip3 install pythrust [--user] (requires Python3)

import asyncio, pythrust

loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
api = pythrust.API(loop)

asyncio.async(api.spawn())
asyncio.async(api.window({ 'root_url': 'http://breach.cc' }).show())

loop.run_forever()

• pythrust breach/pythrust

The API reference as well as links to specific language bindings documentations are availble in the docs/ directory.

[Thrust Architecture]

          (Platform)           [stdio]      (Your Implementation)
                                                                          
                                  #
               +--------------+   #       +-----------------------+  | 
               | Cocoa / Aura |   #   +---|    win3: (HTML/JS)    |  |
               +-------+------+   #   |  +-----------------------++  |
                       |          #   +--|    win2: (HTML/JS)    |   | cli
+------------+ +-------+------+   #   | +-----------------------++   |
|            +-+ thrust (C++) +-------+-+    win1: (HTML/JS)    |    |
| ContentAPI | +-------+------+   #     +-----------------------+    |
|            |         |          #                | (TCP/FS)      
| (Blink/v8) | +-------+------+   #     +-----------------------+    |
|            | + JSON RPC srv +---------+ Client App (any Lang) |    | srv
+------------+ +--------------+   #     +-----------------------+    |
                                  #

• List of API needed by various projects on Thrust: Request for API

• List of people relying on Thrust: List of Thrust Users

• 7.5k max Browser implementation based on Thrust. Coming soon. Ping [email protected] if interested! (Credits to @morganrallen for the awesome idea)

• Mailing list: [email protected]
• IRC Channel: #breach on Freenode

• window creation create, show, close resize, minimize, maximize, ...
• node.js, go node.js and go bindings libraries
• window events close, blur, focus, unresponsive, crashed
• cross-platform equivalent support on MacOSX, Windows and Linux
• sessions off the record, custom storage path, custom cookie store
• kiosk kiosk mode
• application menu global application menu (MacOSX, X11/Unity)
• webview webview tag (secure navigation, tabs management)
• frameless frameless window and draggable regions
• python python bindings library
• tray icon tray icon native integration
• remote thrust specific IPC mechanism for client/server communication
• protocol specific protocol registration (file://, ...)
• proxy enable traffic proxying (Tor, header injection, ...)

You will generally don't need to build thrust yourself. A binary version of thrust should be automatically fetched by the library you're reyling on at installation.

To build thrust, you'll need to have python 2.7.x and git installed. You can then boostrap the project with:

./scripts/boostrap.py                                

Build both the Release and Debug targets 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.