Can Burrito Create Offline-First Desktop Apps with Phoenix/LiveView GUIs?

[PackMeister]

Found Burrito via the recently archived BakeWare repo.

I'm seeking a Javascript-free backend web environment that could ALSO be leveraged to create
cross-platform desktop/laptop application binaries.

So far this has been done with NodeJS/Electron, Rust-based/Tauri, or Dart-based/Flutter.

However, the benefits of Beam-based languages for robust, scalable and decentralized backend applications are well known and the Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView environment for Web applications looks rather compelling.

Were there a Beam-based environment/framework where local, offline-first desktop applications with UIs could leverage the Beam/Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView locally, that would seem to be an almost 'grail-like' environment.

Such an environment could create consistently uniform, robust, performant and scalable applications for any and all tiers, with the possible exception of deeply embedded or hard real-time.

Since Burrito is leveraging Zig and presumably its cross-compilation strengths, am I being too hopeful/optimistic about Burrito's present and future?

To-date has anyone used Burrito to successfully cross-compile and package an Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView desktop GUI application that runs on a Debian-based desktop, e.g. Debian-Gnome, Mint, Ubuntu, etc?

[doawoo]

Heyo! Thanks for taking a look at the project. I'll try and answer your questions here:

1. I know of plenty of people who use Burrito to wrap a local-first (usually using SQLite) Phoenix app. It's certainly doable, I'm not sure if there are any FOSS projects doing this but I know of a lot of folks doing this internally for their work project.

2. We utilize Zig for the wrapper, and provide pre-compiled Erlang VM releases that work on most major platforms (Windows, MacOS and Linux). So longevity of the project should be decent. I plan on trying to improve and maintain this project for as long as I possibly can. :)