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nanoui

Desktop apps in Zig, with native UI drawn on the GPU or a web frontend

Declared floor 0.17GUI & DesktopScore 61.0justrach/nanoui ↗

Stars

811

forks 37

Last push

today

2026-11-05

Dependents

references among indexed projects

Declared deps

build.zig.zon present

Zig version check

Zig version	Verdict	Basis
0.13	Needs Zig ≥ 0.17	This library needs Zig ≥ 0.17.0
0.14	Needs Zig ≥ 0.17	This library needs Zig ≥ 0.17.0
0.15	Needs Zig ≥ 0.17	This library needs Zig ≥ 0.17.0
0.16	Needs Zig ≥ 0.17	This library needs Zig ≥ 0.17.0
0.17 (current stable)	Declared floor 0.17	minimum_zig_version = 0.17.0 in build.zig.zon, at or below this version
0.18-dev / master	Declared floor 0.17	minimum_zig_version = 0.17.0 in build.zig.zon, at or below this version

Adding it as a dependency

zig fetch --save=nanoui https://github.com/justrach/nanoui/archive/refs/heads/main.tar.gz

The command above packs a branch and is not pinned to a tag. In production, switch to refs/tags/<tag>.tar.gz and keep the hash that zig fetch --save writes for you.

Index record

Canonical key: justrach/nanoui
License: MIT
Created: 2026-10-18
Open issues: 3
Package / version: nanoui / 0.12.0
Topics: none
Classification basis: desc:native ui、desc:desktop apps · confidence medium

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Data comes from a public API snapshot taken on 2026-11-05. 2451 unique repositories were collected, merged into 2451 projects, of which 1516 clear the listing gate. Star counts are raw per-host values and are not converted across platforms.