ElementaryUI
A Swift front end framework for the browser
Details
- External ID
- 46526052
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- ElementaryUI
- Website domain
- elementary.codes
- Launched
- Jan. 7, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.09617918313570488
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Against my better judgment I could not stop building a Swift + WebAssembly frontend framework and just kicked a 0.1 out the door.GitHub: https://github.com/elementary-swift/elementary-uiI understand there is a lot of skepticism around Wasm for general frontend work, but I think this can actually be pretty cool - heck, even a viable solution. Especially combined with Embedded Swift - which is still a bit rough, but you can fit little web apps in under 200 kB (compressed).The link contains a "Get Started" section with a template repo, you can try it out in minutes.What are we thinking?
Enrichment
- Theme
- niche developer utilities and toolchains
- Vertical
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- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- swift web ui framework
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Developing a novel declarative frontend framework in Swift that compiles to WebAssembly with custom reactivity and animation systems requires deep compiler, runtime, and language internals knowledge.
What it would actually take: Requires deep familiarity with Embedded Swift, the WebAssembly System Interface (WASI), LLVM tooling, and DOM manipulation via JS/Wasm bridges. The developer must build custom property wrappers, a virtual DOM or fine-grained reactive reconciliation engine, and build-tool plugins (e.g., Vite/Rollup Wasm pipelines) from the ground up.
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