I opened up the src/App.tsx and added a and synced any text changes to React state.

import { useState } from "react";
import reactLogo from "./assets/react.svg";
import { invoke } from "@tauri-apps/api/tauri";
import "./App.css";

function App() {
  const [markdown, setMarkdown] = useState("");

  return (
    
className="container">
      
Welcome to Tauri!

      
className="row">
        href="https://vitejs.dev" target="_blank">
          src="/vite.svg" className="logo vite" alt="Vite logo" />
        
        href="https://tauri.app" target="_blank">
          src="/tauri.svg" className="logo tauri" alt="Tauri logo" />
        
        href="https://reactjs.org" target="_blank">
          src={reactLogo} className="logo react" alt="React logo" />
        
      

      
Click on the Tauri, Vite, and React logos to learn more.

      
className="row">
        

          id</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">"greet-input"</span>
            <span class="nv">onChange</span><span class="o">={(</span>e<span class="o">)</span> <span class="o">=></span> setMarkdown<span class="o">(</span>e.currentTarget.value<span class="o">)}</span>
          />
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>
  <span class="o">)</span><span class="p">;</span>
<span class="o">}</span>

<span class="nb">export </span>default App<span class="p">;</span>
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<p>Now that we have a textbox we can write Markdown inside, let’s convert that to HTML to preview.</p>

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  </a>
  Creating a Tauri command
</h2>

<p>We’ll need to use <a href="https://tauri.app/v1/guides/features/command/">Tauri commands</a> to communicate between the frontend and backend - and vice versa (similar to <a href="https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/tutorial/ipc">the IPC layer in Electron</a>).</p>

<p>Tauri comes with an example Tauri command called <code>greet()</code> already setup, so let’s use that and change it to parse Markdown. Open up <code>src-tauri/src/main.rs</code> and change it to the following:<br>
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<pre class="highlight rust"><code><span class="nd">#![cfg_attr(</span>
    <span class="nd">all(not(debug_assertions),</span> <span class="nd">target_os</span> <span class="nd">=</span> <span class="s">"windows"</span><span class="nd">),</span>
    <span class="nd">windows_subsystem</span> <span class="nd">=</span> <span class="s">"windows"</span>
<span class="nd">)]</span>
<span class="c1">// Import comrak</span>
<span class="k">use</span> <span class="nn">comrak</span><span class="p">::{</span><span class="n">markdown_to_html</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">ComrakOptions</span><span class="p">};</span>

<span class="c1">// Learn more about Tauri commands at https://tauri.app/v1/guides/features/command</span>
<span class="nd">#[tauri::command]</span>
<span class="k">fn</span> <span class="nf">greet</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">markdown</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="o">&</span><span class="nb">str</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="k">-></span> <span class="nb">String</span> <span class="p">{</span>
    <span class="c1">// format!("Hello, {}! You've been greeted from Rust!", name)</span>

        <span class="c1">// Parse the markdown text to HTML</span>
    <span class="k">let</span> <span class="n">html</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nf">markdown_to_html</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="o">&</span><span class="n">markdown</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="o">&</span><span class="nn">ComrakOptions</span><span class="p">::</span><span class="nf">default</span><span class="p">());</span>

    <span class="nd">println!</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">"Markdown parsed into HTML </span><span class="se">\n</span><span class="s">"</span><span class="p">);</span>
    <span class="nd">println!</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">"{html}"</span><span class="p">);</span>

        <span class="c1">// We return the HTML to the frontend (in Rust, we return by omitting the `;`)</span>
    <span class="n">html</span>
<span class="p">}</span>

<span class="k">fn</span> <span class="nf">main</span><span class="p">()</span> <span class="p">{</span>
    <span class="nn">tauri</span><span class="p">::</span><span class="nn">Builder</span><span class="p">::</span><span class="nf">default</span><span class="p">()</span>
                <span class="c1">// Here is where we add our Tauri commands to our app</span>
        <span class="nf">.invoke_handler</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nn">tauri</span><span class="p">::</span><span class="nd">generate_handler!</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">greet</span><span class="p">])</span>
        <span class="nf">.run</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nn">tauri</span><span class="p">::</span><span class="nd">generate_context!</span><span class="p">())</span>
        <span class="nf">.expect</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">"error while running tauri application"</span><span class="p">);</span>
<span class="p">}</span>
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<p>And in our frontend, let’s create a <code><button></code> we can press to run the Tauri command. We use the <code>invoke</code> function provided by Tauri that’ll call a Tauri command with the same name.<br>
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<span class="k">import</span> <span class="nx">reactLogo</span> <span class="k">from</span> <span class="dl">"</span><span class="s2">./assets/react.svg</span><span class="dl">"</span><span class="p">;</span>
<span class="k">import</span> <span class="p">{</span> <span class="nx">invoke</span> <span class="p">}</span> <span class="k">from</span> <span class="dl">"</span><span class="s2">@tauri-apps/api/tauri</span><span class="dl">"</span><span class="p">;</span>
<span class="k">import</span> <span class="dl">"</span><span class="s2">./App.css</span><span class="dl">"</span><span class="p">;</span>

<span class="kd">function</span> <span class="nx">App</span><span class="p">()</span> <span class="p">{</span>
  <span class="kd">const</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="nx">html</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nx">setHtml</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nx">useState</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="dl">""</span><span class="p">);</span>
  <span class="kd">const</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="nx">markdown</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nx">setMarkdown</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nx">useState</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="dl">""</span><span class="p">);</span>

  <span class="k">async</span> <span class="kd">function</span> <span class="nx">greet</span><span class="p">()</span> <span class="p">{</span>
    <span class="c1">// Learn more about Tauri commands at https://tauri.app/v1/guides/features/command</span>
    <span class="nx">setHtml</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="k">await</span> <span class="nx">invoke</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="dl">"</span><span class="s2">greet</span><span class="dl">"</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="p">{</span> <span class="nx">markdown</span> <span class="p">}));</span>
  <span class="p">}</span>

  <span class="k">return</span> <span class="p">(</span>
    <span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">div</span> <span class="na">className</span><span class="p">=</span><span class="s">"container"</span><span class="p">></span>
      <span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">h1</span><span class="p">></span>Welcome to Tauri!<span class="p"></</span><span class="nt">h1</span><span class="p">></span>

      <span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">div</span> <span class="na">className</span><span class="p">=</span><span class="s">"row"</span><span class="p">></span>
        <span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">a</span> <span class="na">href</span><span class="p">=</span><span class="s">"https://vitejs.dev"</span> <span class="na">target</span><span class="p">=</span><span class="s">"_blank"</span><span class="p">></span>
          <span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">img</span> <span class="na">src</span><span class="p">=</span><span class="s">"/vite.svg"</span> <span class="na">className</span><span class="p">=</span><span class="s">"logo vite"</span> <span class="na">alt</span><span class="p">=</span><span class="s">"Vite logo"</span> <span class="p">/></span>
        <span class="p"></</span><span class="nt">a</span><span class="p">></span>
        <span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">a</span> <span class="na">href</span><span class="p">=</span><span class="s">"https://tauri.app"</span> <span class="na">target</span><span class="p">=</span><span class="s">"_blank"</span><span class="p">></span>
          <span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">img</span> <span class="na">src</span><span class="p">=</span><span class="s">"/tauri.svg"</span> <span class="na">className</span><span class="p">=</span><span class="s">"logo tauri"</span> <span class="na">alt</span><span class="p">=</span><span class="s">"Tauri logo"</span> <span class="p">/></span>
        <span class="p"></</span><span class="nt">a</span><span class="p">></span>
        <span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">a</span> <span class="na">href</span><span class="p">=</span><span class="s">"https://reactjs.org"</span> <span class="na">target</span><span class="p">=</span><span class="s">"_blank"</span><span class="p">></span>
          <span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">img</span> <span class="na">src</span><span class="p">=</span><span class="si">{</span><span class="nx">reactLogo</span><span class="si">}</span> <span class="na">className</span><span class="p">=</span><span class="s">"logo react"</span> <span class="na">alt</span><span class="p">=</span><span class="s">"React logo"</span> <span class="p">/></span>
        <span class="p"></</span><span class="nt">a</span><span class="p">></span>
      <span class="p"></</span><span class="nt">div</span><span class="p">></span>

      <span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">p</span><span class="p">></span>Click on the Tauri, Vite, and React logos to learn more.<span class="p"></</span><span class="nt">p</span><span class="p">></span>

      <span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">div</span> <span class="na">className</span><span class="p">=</span><span class="s">"row"</span><span class="p">></span>
        <span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">div</span><span class="p">></span>
          <span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">textarea</span>
            <span class="na">id</span><span class="p">=</span><span class="s">"greet-input"</span>
            <span class="na">onChange</span><span class="p">=</span><span class="si">{</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">e</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">=></span> <span class="nx">setMarkdown</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">e</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">currentTarget</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">value</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="si">}</span>
          <span class="p">/></span>
          <span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">button</span> <span class="na">type</span><span class="p">=</span><span class="s">"button"</span> <span class="na">onClick</span><span class="p">=</span><span class="si">{</span><span class="p">()</span> <span class="o">=></span> <span class="nx">greet</span><span class="p">()</span><span class="si">}</span><span class="p">></span>
            Convert to HTML
          <span class="p"></</span><span class="nt">button</span><span class="p">></span>
        <span class="p"></</span><span class="nt">div</span><span class="p">></span>
      <span class="p"></</span><span class="nt">div</span><span class="p">></span>
      <span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">p</span><span class="p">></span><span class="si">{</span><span class="nx">html</span><span class="si">}</span><span class="p"></</span><span class="nt">p</span><span class="p">></span>
    <span class="p"></</span><span class="nt">div</span><span class="p">></span>
  <span class="p">);</span>
<span class="p">}</span>

<span class="k">export</span> <span class="k">default</span> <span class="nx">App</span><span class="p">;</span>
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<p>If you type some Markdown into the text box and click the button, it should print out raw HTML representing your Markdown. Here’s <a href="https://github.com/whoisryosuke/tauri-markdown-editor/commit/321f5bcfb1c0e370c27b8781d6f70fd74e6b67df">the commit on Github for reference.</a></p>

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  But how do we preview the HTML?
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<p>If we wanted to preview the HTML, we could use React’s <code>dangerouslySetInnerHTML</code> to inject the HTML inside our app:<br>
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  <span class="na">__html</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="nx">html</span>
<span class="p">})</span>

<span class="o"><</span><span class="nx">div</span> <span class="nx">dangerouslySetInnerHTML</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="p">{</span><span class="nx">createMarkdownMarkup</span><span class="p">()}</span> <span class="sr">/</span><span class="err">>
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<p>And ideally, this isn’t as “dangerous” as it sounds, because <a href="https://github.com/kivikakk/comrak#security">Comrak sanitizes the Markdown output for any malicious code</a> before converting to HTML 👍</p>

<p>We could also update the <code>onChange</code> function to run our conversion process, instead of waiting for a button press, so we “instantly” see a live preview. In my case, I do it in a useEffect with a refresh boolean — but it’s all good. <em>Note, this is a little risky, since the user might be able to break the app, so in production it’d be best to create a cache of the last “working” preview just in case one fails.</em><br>
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<span class="k">import</span> <span class="nx">reactLogo</span> <span class="k">from</span> <span class="dl">"</span><span class="s2">./assets/react.svg</span><span class="dl">"</span><span class="p">;</span>
<span class="k">import</span> <span class="p">{</span> <span class="nx">invoke</span> <span class="p">}</span> <span class="k">from</span> <span class="dl">"</span><span class="s2">@tauri-apps/api/tauri</span><span class="dl">"</span><span class="p">;</span>
<span class="k">import</span> <span class="dl">"</span><span class="s2">./App.css</span><span class="dl">"</span><span class="p">;</span>

<span class="kd">function</span> <span class="nx">App</span><span class="p">()</span> <span class="p">{</span>
  <span class="kd">const</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="nx">html</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nx">setHtml</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nx">useState</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="dl">""</span><span class="p">);</span>
  <span class="kd">const</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="nx">markdown</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nx">setMarkdown</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nx">useState</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="dl">""</span><span class="p">);</span>
  <span class="kd">const</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="nx">refreshCheck</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nx">setRefreshCheck</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nx">useState</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="kc">false</span><span class="p">);</span>

  <span class="k">async</span> <span class="kd">function</span> <span class="nx">greet</span><span class="p">()</span> <span class="p">{</span>
    <span class="nx">setRefreshCheck</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="kc">true</span><span class="p">);</span>
  <span class="p">}</span>

  <span class="nx">useEffect</span><span class="p">(()</span> <span class="o">=></span> <span class="p">{</span>
    <span class="kd">const</span> <span class="nx">parseMarkdown</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="k">async</span> <span class="p">()</span> <span class="o">=></span> <span class="p">{</span>
      <span class="nx">setHtml</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="k">await</span> <span class="nx">invoke</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="dl">"</span><span class="s2">greet</span><span class="dl">"</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="p">{</span> <span class="nx">markdown</span> <span class="p">}));</span>
      <span class="nx">setRefreshCheck</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="kc">false</span><span class="p">);</span>
      <span class="nx">console</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">log</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="dl">"</span><span class="s2">new markdown</span><span class="dl">"</span><span class="p">);</span>
    <span class="p">};</span>
    <span class="nx">console</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">log</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="dl">"</span><span class="s2">refreshed</span><span class="dl">"</span><span class="p">);</span>
    <span class="k">if</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">refreshCheck</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="p">{</span>
      <span class="nx">parseMarkdown</span><span class="p">();</span>
      <span class="nx">console</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">log</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="dl">"</span><span class="s2">parsing!</span><span class="dl">"</span><span class="p">);</span>
    <span class="p">}</span>
  <span class="p">},</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="nx">refreshCheck</span><span class="p">]);</span>

  <span class="kd">const</span> <span class="nx">createMarkdownMarkup</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">()</span> <span class="o">=></span> <span class="p">({</span>
    <span class="na">__html</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="nx">html</span><span class="p">,</span>
  <span class="p">});</span>

  <span class="kd">const</span> <span class="nx">handleTextArea</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">e</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">=></span> <span class="p">{</span>
    <span class="nx">setMarkdown</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">e</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">currentTarget</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">value</span><span class="p">);</span>
    <span class="nx">setRefreshCheck</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="kc">true</span><span class="p">);</span>
    <span class="nx">console</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">log</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="dl">"</span><span class="s2">need new markdown!</span><span class="dl">"</span><span class="p">);</span>
  <span class="p">};</span>

  <span class="k">return</span> <span class="p">(</span>
    <span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">div</span><span class="p">></span>
      <span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">div</span> <span class="na">className</span><span class="p">=</span><span class="s">"row"</span><span class="p">></span>
        <span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">div</span><span class="p">></span>
          <span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">textarea</span> <span class="na">id</span><span class="p">=</span><span class="s">"greet-input"</span> <span class="na">onChange</span><span class="p">=</span><span class="si">{</span><span class="nx">handleTextArea</span><span class="si">}</span> <span class="p">/></span>
          <span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">button</span> <span class="na">type</span><span class="p">=</span><span class="s">"button"</span> <span class="na">onClick</span><span class="p">=</span><span class="si">{</span><span class="p">()</span> <span class="o">=></span> <span class="nx">greet</span><span class="p">()</span><span class="si">}</span><span class="p">></span>
            Convert to HTML
          <span class="p"></</span><span class="nt">button</span><span class="p">></span>
        <span class="p"></</span><span class="nt">div</span><span class="p">></span>
      <span class="p"></</span><span class="nt">div</span><span class="p">></span>
      <span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">div</span> <span class="na">dangerouslySetInnerHTML</span><span class="p">=</span><span class="si">{</span><span class="nx">createMarkdownMarkup</span><span class="p">()</span><span class="si">}</span> <span class="p">/></span>
    <span class="p"></</span><span class="nt">div</span><span class="p">></span>
  <span class="p">);</span>
<span class="p">}</span>

<span class="k">export</span> <span class="k">default</span> <span class="nx">App</span><span class="p">;</span>
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<p>Here’s <a href="https://github.com/whoisryosuke/tauri-markdown-editor/commit/4a3b351509d1ec0b363950c778f4ea42f92a32f6">the commit on Github for reference.</a></p>

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<p>Now you can parse Markdown using Rust, there’s lots of cool stuff you can do! From CLIs to UI apps, you can make tools that help people use Markdown. And ideally, this will run faster than most other implementations (like Electron apps) because it’s running in Rust <em>(unless you can write Markdown tooling in C or something)</em>.</p>

<p>I hope this helped you understand some Rust fundamentals and new techniques to use down the line.</p>

<p>As always, if you have any questions or make something using this guide, <a href="https://twitter.com/whoisryosuke">tag me on Twitter</a>. I’d love to help or see what cool stuff you’re hacking on.</p>

<p><strong>You can find the complete code for this post in <a href="https://github.com/whoisryosuke/tauri-markdown-editor">my tauri-markdown-editor repo</a>.</strong></p>

<p>Stay regular!<br>
Ryo</p>

I was going to contribute to [comrak](https://github.com/kivikakk/comrak) the upstream project of snoomark (Reddit's Markdown renderer) to add bidirectional Markdown support, however, the spec isn't ready yet and a lot of things need to be clarified before considering using it in production.

Bidirectional text is not supported on Reddit. Related issue: https://github.com/kivikakk/comrak/issues/205

Jumping on the bandwagon of the guy that jumped on the bandwagon, because you mentioned potentially re-doing your own code at some point so might be interested: my personal site [0] looks very much like this (and is also written in Rust), but uses the comrak [1] crate to convert blog posts from Markdown to HTML on the fly before formatting with the header/footer theme. Using comrak lets you write in-line HTML (so you're not stuck with only Markdown syntax if you want to do something fancier like code blocks or ), and the whole site is <100 LoC, including route definitions.

It handled the one potential HN hug-of-death event I've had without issues while running on the smallest DO droplet offered, and has basically been issue-free since I got it up and running.

[0] https://github.com/quietlychris/site

[1] https://github.com/kivikakk/comrak

I chose to use comrak. It is one of the most developed and well known markdown to html crates and is very easy to use. The main logic of my code is very simple and is done as such

Hi, dear Tauri! Long time no see. I published my first post, Developing a Desktop Application via Rust and NextJS. The Tauri Way almost a year ago. Since then, Tauri has become stronger. I'm happy about that! And now, I am very pleased to make a useful contribution to the Tauri community. As a full-stack developer, I frequently face situations where I need to start a DB-based UI project as fast as possible. It's stressful if I need to start the project from 100% scratch. I prefer to keep some boilerplates on hand, which will save me time and nerves and will be the subject of this article.

Hey Thanks!

Just electron & vite. I might actually migrate off electron, Tauri (https://tauri.app/) seems to be getting more stable and it's gotten great reviews.

I think this is the boilerplate I used though https://github.com/cawa-93/vite-electron-builder.

Well the great thing about WebAssembly is that you can port QT or anything else to be at a layer below -- thanks to WebAssembly Interface Types[0] and the Component Model specification that works underneath that.

To over-simplify, the Component Model manages language interop, and WIT constrains the boundaries with interfaces.

IMO the problem here is defining a 90% solution for most window, tab, button, etc management, then building embeddings in QT, Flutter/Skia, and other lower level engines. Getting a good cross-platform way of doing data passing, triggering re-renders, serializing window state is probably the meat of the interesting work.

On top of that, you really need great UX. This is normally where projects fall short -- why should I use this solution instead of something like Tauri[2] which is excellent or Electron?

[0]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/component-model/blob/main/des...

[1]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/component-model/blob/main/des...

[2]: https://tauri.app/

Welcome to the 2nd episode of our series “Building with Tauri”, where we chat with developers who build amazing projects and products using Tauri.

Tauri seemed like the "thing" I should switch to because everybody loves Rust (heh), and because it ships significantly smaller apps.

First of all, I will be using npm as my package manager but feel free to use whatever you prefer. Find more info here.

Today I'm talking about Tauri! Do you know all the various tools that allow you to develop native applications starting from web languages? They often need an intermediate compilation, in the middle of which you end up encountering various problems not always transparent and directly solvable with a language mostly detached from native development. On the other hand, there's still the ease of developing attractive and easily usable interfaces, which are more difficult to develop with low level languages.