Better Programming·4yGoodbye Electron. Hello Tauri, A Rust-powered Backend Framework
Electron is a Rust-powered Backend Framework paired with a React frontend to offer an awesome browser-less experience. Tauri is a toolkit that helps developers make applications for the major desktop platforms — using virtually any frontend framework in existence. For completeness, you can find the entire code base for my community project on my Gitlab.
Product Hunt·4yTauri - An Electron alternative written in Rust
Tauri is a framework for building tiny, blazingly fast binaries for all major desktop platforms. Developers can integrate any front-end framework that compiles to HTML, JS and CSS for building their user interface. Free Discuss Collect Share Stats Free Discuss Share Stats free Discuss Share stats free
Changelog·4yReal world application
Electron is a framework for creating native applications with web technologies like JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. The Electron app is written in plain-old HTML and JavaScript. The Tauri app installer is around 2,5MB (!!!), while the Electron install is around ~85MB. Tauri has many security features built-in by default. You can even explicitly enable or disable certain APIs.
SitePoint·3yTauri: Fast, Cross-platform Desktop Apps
In this tutorial, we’ll explore Tauri, a modern, cross-platform framework for building desktop apps. Electron is great, but it has some significant drawbacks, which some other modern frameworks have overcome. Tauri is a modern framework that allows you to design, develop and build cross- platform apps using familiar web technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Changelog·4yTauri 1.0 Release
Tauri is an app construction toolkit that lets you build software for all major desktop operating systems using web technologies. The core libraries have been written for you in Rust and the user interface can be written using virtually any frontend framework. The apps you make are lean and performant, which reduces electricity, storage space, and general natural resource consumption.