first class support for bundlers

[baseplate-admin]

Description

It would be awesome if pywebview provided support for first class bundlers (eg: webpack,vite)

Practicalities

• YES/NO I am willing to work on this issue myself.

[r0x0r]

How would bundler support look like?

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[baseplate-admin]

Hi sorry for late reply.

How would bundler support look like?

Something like tauri, where we use vite to bundle assets.

Why?

1. This would allow us to the pre-processed js frameworks like solid.js, svelte, vue
2. Generally working with bundlers are easier compared to manual management.

Outcome:

1. One single js file that allows users to access the gui.

[r0x0r]

Tauri has a node application that creates a project scaffold with a configuration file. Is this what you suggest?

[baseplate-admin]

Correct. We use node.js to make a bundle. Final application wont have any node.js dependency

[r0x0r]

While it is a noble idea, but the reality is that I do not have resources for launching and maintaining a separate project.

[baseplate-admin]

While it is a noble idea, but the reality is that I do not have resources for launching and maintaining a separate project.

Fair enough, but could you please keep this issue open? Maybe someone will implement that feature

[r0x0r]

Sure

[thecircleisround]

I've updated the react boilerplate to use vite and vue3 here Vu3 Boilerplate. I have not tested on windows. Should still work with react.

[Barafu]

One does not need any support from PyWebView to use it with Vite. For develop, just start Vite: npx vite dev and it will print a path to pass to PyWebView as URL. For release, run npx vite build and bundle that folder with your app.

I am using PyWebView, Vite and PyInstaller together in my app. If you want, look at this particular state where everything works together. A lot of magic happens in .vscode/tasks.json which is why I committed it to Git when usually it is not done.