An idiomatic GUI library inspired by Elm and based on gtk4-rs. Relm4 is a new version of relm that's built from scratch and is compatible with GTK4 and libadwaita.

Why Relm4

We believe that GUI development should be easy, productive and delightful.
The gtk4-rs crate already provides everything you need to write modern, beautiful and cross-platform applications. Built on top of this foundation, Relm4 makes developing more idiomatic, simpler and faster and enables you to become productive in just a few hours.

Our goals

• ⏱️ Productivity
• ✨ Simplicity
• 📎 Outstanding documentation
• 🔧 Maintainability

Documentation

• 📖 The Relm4 book
• 📜 Rust documentation

Dependencies

Relm4 depends on GTK4: How to install GTK4.

Ecosystem

Relm4 has two crates that extend the core functionality:

• relm4-macros provides a widget macro that simplifies UI creation
• relm4-components is a collections of reusable components you can easily integrate into your application

To use all features, just add this to your Cargo.toml:

relm4 = { version = "0.4", features = ["macros"] }
relm4-components = "0.4"

Features

The relm4 crate has four feature flags:

Flag	Purpose
macros	Enable macros by re-exporting relm4-macros
tokio-rt	Adds the AsyncRelmWorker type that uses an asynchronous update function
libadwaita	Improved support for libadwaita
all	Enable all features

Examples

Several example applications are available at relm4-examples/.

📸 Screenshots from the example apps

A simple counter app

use gtk::prelude::{BoxExt, ButtonExt, GtkWindowExt, OrientableExt};
use relm4::{send, AppUpdate, Model, RelmApp, Sender, WidgetPlus, Widgets};

#[derive(Default)]
struct AppModel {
    counter: u8,
}

enum AppMsg {
    Increment,
    Decrement,
}

impl Model for AppModel {
    type Msg = AppMsg;
    type Widgets = AppWidgets;
    type Components = ();
}

impl AppUpdate for AppModel {
    fn update(&mut self, msg: AppMsg, _components: &(), _sender: Sender<AppMsg>) -> bool {
        match msg {
            AppMsg::Increment => {
                self.counter = self.counter.wrapping_add(1);
            }
            AppMsg::Decrement => {
                self.counter = self.counter.wrapping_sub(1);
            }
        }
        true
    }
}

#[relm4::widget]
impl Widgets<AppModel, ()> for AppWidgets {
    view! {
        gtk::ApplicationWindow {
            set_title: Some("Simple app"),
            set_default_width: 300,
            set_default_height: 100,
            set_child = Some(&gtk::Box) {
                set_orientation: gtk::Orientation::Vertical,
                set_margin_all: 5,
                set_spacing: 5,

                append = &gtk::Button {
                    set_label: "Increment",
                    connect_clicked(sender) => move |_| {
                        send!(sender, AppMsg::Increment);
                    },
                },
                append = &gtk::Button {
                    set_label: "Decrement",
                    connect_clicked(sender) => move |_| {
                        send!(sender, AppMsg::Decrement);
                    },
                },
                append = &gtk::Label {
                    set_margin_all: 5,
                    set_label: watch! { &format!("Counter: {}", model.counter) },
                }
            },
        }
    }
}

fn main() {
    let model = AppModel::default();
    let app = RelmApp::new(model);
    app.run();
}

Projects using Relm4

• fm — A small, general-purpose file manager.
• Done - A simple and versatile to do app.
• Reovim - GUI frontend for neovim.

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.

Feedback and contributions are highly appreciated!