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Harbor Wiki

Welcome to the Harbor wiki - documentation for the local desktop app framework.

Overview

Harbor is an Electron alternative built in Rust that embeds the Servo rendering engine. It connects web frontends to local backends over Unix Domain Sockets (not TCP networking).

Quick Links

• Architecture - How Harbor works
• Transport-URLs - The http::unix: URL format
• Backend-Configuration - Configuring gunicorn, Flask, etc.

Related Projects

• Rigging - Servo embedding library
• Compass - Privacy browser (uses Rigging)
• Servo - The browser engine

Getting Started

# Clone and build
git clone https://github.com/marctjones/harbor.git
cd harbor
cargo build

# Run the example
cargo run -- --example hello-flask

Issue Tracker

See GitHub Issues for bugs and features.