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    Create beautiful applications using Go

    frontend
    ios
    angular
    desktop-application
    go
    golang
    javascript
    Go
    MIT
    35.6K stars
    1.8K forks
    35.6K GitHub watchers
    Updated 7/28/2026
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    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Wails enables building lightweight, beautiful desktop applications by combining Go backend with modern web frontends like React, Vue, Angular, and Svelte.
    • Key features include native dialogs, menus, dark/light mode, frosted window effects, auto-generated TypeScript bindings, and multiplatform support without embedding a browser.
    • Strengths are its lightweight nature and native rendering engines; limitations include reliance on Go and web technologies, which may not suit all desktop app needs.
    • Organizations can use Wails to rapidly develop cross-platform desktop apps with a single binary, leveraging existing web frontend skills and Go backend performance.
    • Ideal use cases are Go developers needing rich desktop UIs without Electron's overhead, or teams wanting to bundle web frontends with Go backends in a native app.

    About wails


    Build desktop applications using Go & Web Technologies.

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    Table of Contents

    Introduction

    The traditional method of providing web interfaces to Go programs is via a built-in web server. Wails offers a different approach: it provides the ability to wrap both Go code and a web frontend into a single binary. Tools are provided to make this easy for you by handling project creation, compilation and bundling. All you have to do is get creative!

    Features

    • Use standard Go for the backend
    • Use any frontend technology you are already familiar with to build your UI
    • Quickly create rich frontends for your Go programs using pre-built templates
    • Easily call Go methods from Javascript
    • Auto-generated Typescript definitions for your Go structs and methods
    • Native Dialogs & Menus
    • Native Dark / Light mode support
    • Supports modern translucency and "frosted window" effects
    • Unified eventing system between Go and Javascript
    • Powerful cli tool to quickly generate and build your projects
    • Multiplatform
    • Uses native rendering engines - no embedded browser!

    Roadmap

    The project roadmap may be found here. Please consult it before creating an enhancement request.

    Getting Started

    The installation instructions are on the official website.

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    FAQ

    • Is this an alternative to Electron?

      Depends on your requirements. It's designed to make it easy for Go programmers to make lightweight desktop applications or add a frontend to their existing applications. Wails does offer native elements such as menus and dialogs, so it could be considered a lightweight electron alternative.

    • Who is this project aimed at?

      Go programmers who want to bundle an HTML/JS/CSS frontend with their applications, without resorting to creating a server and opening a browser to view it.

    • What's with the name?

      When I saw WebView, I thought "What I really want is tooling around building a WebView app, a bit like Rails is to Ruby". So initially it was a play on words (Webview on Rails). It just so happened to also be a homophone of the English name for the Country I am from. So it stuck.

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