Building Cross-Platform GUIs with Slint - A Practical Introduction
summary
Slint is a Rust-first UI toolkit that compiles a declarative markup into Rust and runs on desktop, web and bare‑metal MCUs (~300 KB of RAM); the demo builds a working todo app using VS Code + the Slint language server with live preview, includes a VecModel passed as an RC, adds items via a generated callback, loads items asynchronously with spawn_local (demo uses a 2s fake delay) while showing a conditional spinner, and implements a custom animated button (300 ms) using either build.rs / slint macro. License: GPLv3 or commercial options for proprietary/embedded use.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:03What is Slint
- 3:14Licensing model
- 3:35Setting up the project template
- 5:02VS Code extension
- 7:29Live UI design
- 10:06Custom list view
- 13:03Rust logic binding
- 16:21Async data loading
- 19:25Loading spinner
- 21:36Button customization
- 25:01Summary & Q&A
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