native: open links in default webbrowser (#4623)

Cargo.lock

@@ -5724,6 +5724,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "rustc-hash 2.1.1",
  "tokio",
  "tracing",
+ "webbrowser",
  "winit",
 ]
 

Cargo.toml

@@ -350,6 +350,7 @@ objc = { version = "0.2.7", features = ["exception"] }
 objc_id = "0.1.1"
 tray-icon = "0.21.0"
 open = "5.3.2"
+webbrowser = "1.0"
 
 # web
 gloo-dialogs = "0.2.0"

packages/desktop/Cargo.toml

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ base64 = { workspace = true }
 libc = "0.2.174"
 rand = { workspace = true, features = ["std_rng"] }
 subtle = { version = "2.6", features = ["const-generics"] }
-webbrowser = { version = "1.0" }
+webbrowser = { workspace = true }
 
 [target.'cfg(unix)'.dependencies]
 signal-hook = "0.3.18"

packages/native/Cargo.toml

@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ keyboard-types = { workspace = true }
 
 # IO & Networking
 tokio = { workspace = true, features = ["rt-multi-thread"], optional = true }
+webbrowser = { workspace = true }
 
 # Other dependencies
 tracing = { workspace = true, optional = true }

packages/native/src/lib.rs

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ mod assets;
 mod contexts;
 mod dioxus_application;
 mod dioxus_renderer;
+mod link_handler;
 
 #[doc(inline)]
 pub use dioxus_native_dom::*;
@@ -26,7 +27,10 @@ pub use dioxus_renderer::{use_wgpu, DioxusNativeWindowRenderer, Features, Limits
 
 use blitz_shell::{create_default_event_loop, BlitzShellEvent, Config, WindowConfig};
 use dioxus_core::{ComponentFunction, Element, VirtualDom};
+use link_handler::DioxusNativeNavigationProvider;
 use std::any::Any;
+#[cfg(feature = "html")]
+use std::sync::Arc;
 use winit::window::WindowAttributes;
 
 /// Launch an interactive HTML/CSS renderer driven by the Dioxus virtualdom
@@ -125,16 +129,19 @@ pub fn launch_cfg_with_props<P: Clone + 'static, M: 'static>(
     let net_provider = None;
 
     #[cfg(feature = "html")]
-    let html_parser_provider = Some(std::sync::Arc::new(blitz_html::HtmlProvider) as _);
+    let html_parser_provider = Some(Arc::new(blitz_html::HtmlProvider) as _);
     #[cfg(not(feature = "html"))]
     let html_parser_provider = None;
 
+    let navigation_provider = Some(Arc::new(DioxusNativeNavigationProvider) as _);
+
     // Create document + window from the baked virtualdom
     let doc = DioxusDocument::new(
         vdom,
         DocumentConfig {
             net_provider,
             html_parser_provider,
+            navigation_provider,
             ..Default::default()
         },
     );

packages/native/src/link_handler.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+use blitz_traits::{
+    navigation::{NavigationOptions, NavigationProvider},
+    net::Method,
+};
+
+pub(crate) struct DioxusNativeNavigationProvider;
+
+impl NavigationProvider for DioxusNativeNavigationProvider {
+    fn navigate_to(&self, options: NavigationOptions) {
+        if options.method == Method::GET
+            && matches!(options.url.scheme(), "http" | "https" | "mailto")
+        {
+            if let Err(err) = webbrowser::open(options.url.as_str()) {
+                tracing::error!("Failed to open URL: {}", err);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}