Shiny is an experimental GUI library designed from scratch and written purely in Go. It was created to explore what's possible when building a cross-platform GUI for the Go language. It is not an official GUI toolkit for Go (though it was created by developers at Google) but provides a solid basis for graphical applications on most supported Go platforms.
This chapter explores how to use the Shiny project to build cross-platform graphical applications without the need for C libraries or pre-installed dependencies. The following topics will be covered in this chapter:
- The design principles of the Shiny project and its widgets
- How the toolkit is built to support multiple platforms without external drivers or native libraries
- Building a basic graphical application that can easily cross-compile to different systems
- Creating a a complete application...
