Differences with Dioxus
Freya is built on top of the core crates from Dioxus, this means that you will effectively be creating Dioxus components, using RSX and hooks. But, you will not be using HTML, CSS, JS or any Web tech at all.
Here you can find a list of the main differences between Freya and the official Dioxus renderers for Desktop (WebView and Blitz):
| Category | Freya | Dioxus Renderers |
|---|---|---|
| Elements, attributes and events | Custom | HTML |
| Layout | Torin | CSS or Taffy |
| Styling | Custom | CSS |
| Renderer | Skia | WebView or WGPU |
| Components library | Custom | None, but can use HTML elements and CSS libraries |
| Devtools | Custom | Provided in Webview |
| Headless testing runner | Custom | None, but there is Playwright and similar |