leptos VS tauri

Why Krzysztof choose Tauri V2, leptos, and thaw-ui

I'm not here to present Leptos or Tauri, for that, just clik the links, ask Goole, or ClaudePilotGPTWhateverLLama... I'm not even here to make just a tutorial on how to get the two working -- if you see Tauri documentation on it is quite "terse," but still enough.

Lots of new frontend frameworks have been built on top of Rust, including Leptos, which happens to be one of the most popular ones. In this guide, we'll highlight why and how to migrate your JavaScript frontend to use the Leptos Rust frontend framework.

I don't know why OP felt moved to write this weird guide, https://leptos.dev is incredible!

https://github.com/leptos-rs/leptos/blob/main/flake.nix

You want a package? Add it to buildInputs.

You want to search a package: https://search.nixos.org/packages (or use the cli)

you want to test a package before adding it? nix-shell -p or nix shell for example.

Heck, even if you want it more easy, you could write a tool in less than 100 lines that adds packages names to .json/.yaml/.toml, which allows you to parse it using the nix language and a simple cli written with bash functions to add/remove packages if you wanted.

That's why it is hard for me to understand this project as a product, it seems like a wrapper to the most basic things :\

We use the fantastic Leptos framework for building the frontend. Besides that, we use the leptos-use utilities for connecting to the WebSocket server, serde for serialization, and rand for generating random numbers.

I'd use https://leptos.dev because you can use a fully typed language (Rust) that is super fast in the backend and also in the frontend (see https://krausest.github.io/js-framework-benchmark/2024/table...)

For the web-side, if you'd like to use Rust end-to-end we've had the best experience with Leptos: https://leptos.dev/

Audit report is here.

https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/blob/dev/audits/Radicall...

Tauri is an excellent toolkit for building lightweight, secure, and cross-platform desktop applications using web technologies. Since its alpha release in 2019, Tauri has become a compelling alternative to established tools like Electron.

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Tauri looks promising as it does essentially the same without bundling a full browser, which honestly I find absurd except in very specific use cases. Also interesting that they want to support other languages beside Rust in the future.

https://tauri.app/

I'd really like to see it compared to Tauri [0] which is the established leader in this space.

0: https://tauri.app

Consider hybrid desktop applications using HTML, JavaScript, and CSS as a view via the webview. Go Wails, a very performant desktop development framework, is based on this idea. Similarly, Rust Tauri apps operate on this principle.

- the only thing that tripped me up, was that re-building the project didnt't work due to an colliding filename error, but I found a closed issue at their https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/10192 which pointed me towards removing `rlib` from the crate-type, which solved that issue.

All in all quite a smooth experience, was done in an 1-2 hours or something, not sure.

tauri-apps/tauri: https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri :

> The user interface in Tauri apps currently leverages tao as a window handling library on macOS, Windows, Linux, Android and iOS. To render your application, Tauri uses WRY, a library which provides a unified interface to the system webview, leveraging WKWebView on macOS & iOS, WebView2 on Windows, WebKitGTK on Linux and Android System WebView on Android. ... Tauri GitHub action: https://tauri.app/v1/guides/building/cross-platform/#tauri-g...

CEF: Chromium Embedded Framework > External Projects: https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef/src/master/README... : cefglue, cefpython: https://github.com/cztomczak/cefpython

ChromiumGtk WebView.cs ; cefglue: https://github.com/lunixo/ChromiumGtk/blob/main/Lunixo.Chrom...