What is Freya?

Freya is native GUI library for Rust🦀, built on top of 🧬 Dioxus's core and powered by 🎨 Skia as a graphics library.

Features

  • ⛏️ Built-in components (button, scroll views, switch and more)
  • 🚇 Built-in hooks library (animations, text editing and more)
  • 🔍 Built-in devtools panel (experimental ⚠️)
  • 🧰 Built-in headless testing runner for components
  • 🎨 Theming support (not extensible yet ⚠️)
  • 🛩️ Cross-platform (Windows, Linux, MacOS)
  • 🖼️ SKSL Shaders support
  • 🔄️ Dioxus Hot-reload support
  • 📒 Multi-line text editing (experimental ⚠️)
  • 🦾 Basic Accessibility Support (experimental ⚠️)
  • 🧩Compatible with dioxus-std and other Dioxus renderer-agnostic libraries

Why 🧬 Dioxus?

Dioxus is a React-like library for Rust. Its component and hooks model make it simple to use and scales to complex apps.

See it's differences with Freya.

Why 🎨 Skia?

Skia is a battle-tested and well-maintained graphics library, and there are even some rusty bindings.