A simple example to build native desktop app using react-qml and a pluggable backend

Install Qt5, yarn, your back-end toolchain:

brew install qt
brew install yarn
# rust
curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh
# or nim
curl https://nim-lang.org/choosenim/init.sh -sSf | sh

Step 1. Run dev server:

yarn install
yarn start

Step 2. Run desktop app (in a new terminal tab)

cd rust
cargo install --path --debug .
cargo run

Step 1. Bundle front-end codes:

yarn install
yarn build

Step 2. Update entry URL

• Open rust/src/main.rs
• Edit entry_url to load from qrc:/index.qml

// let entry_url = QVariant::from(QString::from("https://localhost:8081/index.qml"));
// in production, use code below
let entry_url = QVariant::from(QString::from("qrc:/index.qml"));

Step 3. Bundle desktop app

cd rust
cargo bundle --release
macdeployqt "target/release/bundle/osx/React QML Rust.app"

Step 1. Run dev server:

yarn install
yarn start

Step 2. Run desktop app (in a new terminal tab)

cd nim
nimble run main

Step 1. Bundle front-end codes:

yarn install
yarn build

Step 2. Update entry URL

• Open nim/main.nim
• Set DEV = false (line 5)

const DEV = false

Step 3. Bundle desktop app

• TBD