vercel-labs/native

Toolkit for building native desktop apps

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Indexed issues: 95
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Merged PRs (30d): 13

Dominant language: Zig
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 16, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
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95 open issues indexed

The reference rasteriser is single-threaded; banding rows by scissor is byte-identical and roughly doubles the frame rate Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 52/100

vercel-labs/native#443 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
The reference rasteriser does per-pixel work that is loop-invariant or arithmetically absent Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

vercel-labs/native#442 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
A detented wheel notch teleports instead of travelling on the engine scroll path Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

vercel-labs/native#441 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
Linux gpu_surface emits scroll input per event, starving the idle-band frame emission Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

vercel-labs/native#440 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Iroh p2p with Native SDK Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

vercel-labs/native#439 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
`Cmd.fetch` returned from `initialModel` segfaults the boot command encode (EXC_BAD_ACCESS at 0x0) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

vercel-labs/native#437 · Opened Sep 15, 2026
Windows GNU TypeScript-core builds select host Clang and fail on missing inttypes.h Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

vercel-labs/native#433 · Opened Sep 10, 2026
external links: an `allowed_urls` wildcard that passes `native check` can deny every URL at runtime, and nothing reports it Open

vercel-labs/native#431 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 7, 2026
ts-core: no official way to route Cmd.request into native code — patch-only on desktop, impossible on mobile Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

vercel-labs/native#430 · Opened Sep 7, 2026
ios: Debug builds fail to link — core archive references UBSan runtime the host link never provides Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

vercel-labs/native#429 · Opened Sep 7, 2026
ios: `native dev --target ios` fails to link — zig-built archive members not 8-byte aligned for Apple ld Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

vercel-labs/native#428 · Opened Sep 7, 2026
TypeScript cores have no way to exchange messages with a WebView Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

vercel-labs/native#426 · Opened Sep 6, 2026
scroll: one wheel notch flings for about forty seconds on Linux Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

vercel-labs/native#424 · Opened Sep 4, 2026
canvas text: medium and bold ink as regular off macOS, and an app cannot supply the faces Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

vercel-labs/native#423 · Opened Sep 3, 2026
url schemes: the packager registers a scheme with the OS that no host delivers to the app Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

vercel-labs/native#422 · Opened Sep 3, 2026
canvas text: a glyph missing from the registered face paints as a solid block, and off macOS that is the only text path Open

vercel-labs/native#421 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 3, 2026
docs: Rewrite documentation to follow Vercel's writing guidelines Open

Difficulty 4/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 52/100

vercel-labs/native#419 · Opened Sep 3, 2026
native dev: default events trace floods stdout with the 500ms markup-watch timer Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 76/100

vercel-labs/native#418 · Opened Sep 3, 2026
Attributed editing: paragraph-scoped rich-textarea on TextBuffer + TextSpan Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

vercel-labs/native#413 · Opened Aug 30, 2026
Per-view widget layout budget (1024 nodes) drops whole frames on real multi-pane app views Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

vercel-labs/native#408 · Opened Aug 27, 2026
JSON.parse `as` cast on a declared optional number misreports the failing path/type (explicit JSON null, 3 levels deep) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

vercel-labs/native#407 · Opened Aug 27, 2026
@native-sdk/core/text fails the subset checker's integer proofs once TextEditState is a Model field Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

vercel-labs/native#406 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 25, 2026
Zig 0.17.0 Support Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

vercel-labs/native#393 · Opened Aug 19, 2026
Text runs are placed by subtracting the point size instead of the resolved font's ascent, so two faces on one line draw on two baselines Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

vercel-labs/native#392 · Opened Aug 19, 2026
canvas: `image_src` is not on `ui.ElementOptions`, so apps cannot atlas and the 16-slot registry becomes the ceiling Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 85/100

vercel-labs/native#387 · Opened Aug 18, 2026
native build failed on windows 11 with nodejs v24.18.0 Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

vercel-labs/native#365 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 16, 2026
macOS: the window frame event reports the frame size where everything else expects the content size Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 84/100

vercel-labs/native#355 · Opened Aug 14, 2026
Example app from the documentation crashes on Linux when pressing the "Stamp" button Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

vercel-labs/native#342 · Opened Aug 13, 2026
Drag-across-to-select is not expressible: no drag-over channel, and on-drag lifts the source Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

vercel-labs/native#319 · Opened Aug 11, 2026
Design: persistence for TS cores without eject (SQL in-process or file KV?) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

vercel-labs/native#309 · Opened Aug 10, 2026
Syntax highlighting Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

vercel-labs/native#306 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 10, 2026
Design: add pull-based HTTP and file byte streams Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

vercel-labs/native#302 · Opened Aug 9, 2026
Render anchored surfaces above child WebViews Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

vercel-labs/native#301 · Opened Aug 9, 2026
Add typed Cmd.navigateWebView for TypeScript cores Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

vercel-labs/native#290 · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 7, 2026
Design: define a shared video capture session contract Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

vercel-labs/native#287 · Opened Aug 5, 2026
中文：macOS 签名缺少 Mach-O headerpad，导致 GPU 应用启动崩溃 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

vercel-labs/native#279 · Opened Aug 4, 2026
Expose secure credentials through Zig UiApp effects Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 42/100

vercel-labs/native#272 · Opened Aug 3, 2026
Design: add incremental atomic binary file-writer effects Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

vercel-labs/native#263 · Opened Aug 2, 2026
Design: expose reliable paired system and microphone audio streams Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

vercel-labs/native#262 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 2, 2026
Windows: `restore_state` is accepted but ignored by the WebView2 host Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

vercel-labs/native#261 · Opened Aug 2, 2026
Uint8Array writes: a number[] source gives zeros, a Uint8Array source won't compile Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

vercel-labs/native#260 · Opened Aug 2, 2026
file drops stop one tier short of TypeScript cores: both hosts deliver `files_dropped`, but the ts-core wiring has no `dropMsg` channel Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

vercel-labs/native#256 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 1, 2026
Design: add macOS system and microphone audio capture Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

vercel-labs/native#254 · Opened Aug 1, 2026
The /terminal docs page's TypeScript column is wrong: the pty key it shows binds nothing and its `ptyWrite` call does not transpile Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

vercel-labs/native#252 · Opened Aug 1, 2026
Host-filled record numbers infer as f64: `TerminalState.scrollback` cannot bind a whole-number attribute without `| 0` Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

vercel-labs/native#251 · Opened Aug 1, 2026
Two `Msg` arms sharing a payload member name mis-resolve: NS1061 fires against the wrong arm Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

vercel-labs/native#250 · Opened Aug 1, 2026
Template-literal interpolation of a string emits `{d}`; the generated Zig does not compile Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

vercel-labs/native#249 · Opened Aug 1, 2026
Screen capture support (equivalent to Electron's desktopCapturer) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

vercel-labs/native#240 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 30, 2026
Add secure/password mode for canvas text fields Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

vercel-labs/native#237 · Opened Jul 30, 2026
Canvas: support native macOS system fonts Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

vercel-labs/native#232 · Opened Jul 29, 2026

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