BareBonesBrowser

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What is it?

The BareBonesBrowser is a SwiftUI vanilla browser for testing and triaging purposes.

Minimum requirements:

• iOS 16
• macOS 14

Cookies and website data management

The app uses the same non-persistent WKWebsiteDataStore and WKProcessPool for all windows.

BareBonesBrowserKit

The browser core code is available as a Swift Package

Minimum requirements:

• iOS 14
• macOS 11

Cookies and website data management

The WKWebViewConfiguration is provided by the app, so the BareBonesBrowserKit is not in control of cookies or websites' data.

AppKit Example

static var webViewConfiguration: WKWebViewConfiguration = {
	let configuration = WKWebViewConfiguration()
	configuration.websiteDataStore = WKWebsiteDataStore.nonPersistent()
	configuration.processPool = WKProcessPool()
	return configuration
}()

@objc func openVanillaBrowser(_ sender: Any?) {
	openVanillaBrowser(url: URL(string: "https://duckduckgo.com/")!)
}

private func openVanillaBrowser(url: URL) {
	let browserView = NSHostingView(rootView: BareBonesBrowserView(initialURL: url,
                                                                      homeURL: url,
                                                                   uiDelegate: self,
                                                                configuration: Self.webViewConfiguration,
                                                                    userAgent: "Your UA"))
	browserView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
	browserView.widthAnchor.constraint(greaterThanOrEqualToConstant: 640).isActive = true
	browserView.heightAnchor.constraint(greaterThanOrEqualToConstant: 480).isActive = true
	let viewController = NSViewController()
	viewController.view = browserView
	let window = NSWindow(contentViewController: viewController)
	window.center()
	let wc = NSWindowController(window: window)
	wc.showWindow(nil)
}

func browserDidRequestNewWindow(urlRequest: URLRequest) {
	if let url = urlRequest.url {
		openVanillaBrowser(url: url)
	}
}

SwiftUI Example

See BareBonesBrowserApp.swift

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License

DuckDuckGo is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license.