Ubuntu – How to develop an Ubuntu application in HTML and JS

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I am developing an app and I think HTML and JavaScript are better for the future, but I cannot find any tutorials (I need the app to use the system theme).

Are there bindings for Unity, message menu and notification, couchdb and so on?

Best Answer

A good starting point for bindings and APIs on Ubuntu can be found on developer.ubuntu.com. I don't have any experience with it, but you will probably also want to look into Gjs, the Javascript bindings for GNOME.

Depending on what you are trying to do, you could just build the app like any HTML + JS app and then throw it into a Webkit view. It's extremely simple to do in python:

#!/usr/bin/env python

from gi.repository import Gtk, WebKit
import os, sys

class Browser:
    def __init__(self):
        self.window = Gtk.Window()
        self.window.set_default_size(800, 600)
        view = WebKit.WebView()
        view.load_html_string("<strong>Hello World!</strong>", "file:///")  
        self.window.add(view)

        self.window.show_all()
        self.window.connect('destroy', lambda w: Gtk.main_quit())

def main():
    app = Browser()
    Gtk.main()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()
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