🦀 Learning Rust for Tauri, Ep. 1

Why Tauri

Little background here, I’m in business of building desktop apps right now. And since Tauri v2 was stable released today, I thought I’d give the “Electron-killer” framework a try. Dozens of articles, videos, and blog posts compare and contrast the two, each reaching more or less the same conclusion - Tauri is the better technology, though yet unproven. Sure, missing a few features (menu apps) and plagued by web-development headaches (browser incompatibility), but generally fast, lightweight, secure and robust.

Getting Started

Start by installing all dependencies

// Rust curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh // Follow Rust instructions for your OS specific requirements // Create project (specify framework, langauage, flavor) npm create tauri-app@latest cd tauri-app npm install npm run tauri dev

Development

Whatever framework you choose, development of the frontend is accomplished

Making it feel “native”

There are a few simple CSS changes you can make to improve the “native” feel of your app.

body { overflow: hidden; cursor: default; text-select: none; }

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