Wails VS tauri

A different option is Wails [1], which allows you to write all logic in Go, and the UI in HTML (with any or no web framework). It's like Electron but lighter because it doesn't ship Chrome but uses the system's web viewer instead.

[1] https://github.com/wailsapp/wails

This is basically the same tech stack of an app I’ve been planning to build, but deployed as a desktop application using Wails: https://github.com/wailsapp/wails

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The wails project does this when. You can check it out here https://github.com/wailsapp/wails/blob/master/v2/internal/typescriptify/typescriptify.go for inspection.

I have built Web front-ends (React or Svelte) with Go-backend. Embed in a web-view to make it a native desktop app, or get funky and give it native chrome/menus etc. [Wails](https://github.com/wailsapp/wails) is a good candidate to start if you want to cut on boiler plate.

Is that what wails is doing here? (On mobile)

In a "local" environment, where an executable can be provided to someone with the entire game contents. In this case, the game won't use WebSockets, and will instead use a Go/JS bridge (something like Wails) to connect.

Have you seen wails? https://github.com/wailsapp/wails

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.

Part of the reason I built Wealthfolio was to see how fast I could turn an idea into a working product as a solo developer using AI. Both the Tauri framework and the Rust programming language were new to me, but AI gave me a serious edge in tackling that learning curve and troubleshooting issues (try to understand and resolve Rust's borrow and ownership issues 😁).

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...

Tauri[0] is another HTML/CSS/JS-converter that generates small binaries by relying on the presence of WebView. Works pretty well.

[0] https://tauri.app

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