(Ab)using a server library as a GUI - bad idea or only sort of bad idea?

• OpenRefine

  45 10,465 9.7 Java

  OpenRefine is a free, open source power tool for working with messy data and improving it

  

OpenRefine does something like this and it works pretty nicely. Overall, it's pretty nice and a simple web server which needs to handle only one connection is very compact, probably smaller than most GUI toolkits. It also takes less overhead and give the user more choice than using WebView which is what Tauri does.

• tauri

  469 77,375 9.8 Rust

  Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.

  

The granddaddy is Electron, with Tauri set to (probably) replace it at some point in the future.

• WorkOS

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• tauri-nextjs-template

  1 252 8.6 TypeScript

  A Tauri + Next.js (SSG) template, with TailwindCSS, opinionated linting, and GitHub Actions preconfigured

Sounds a really good idea! For inspiration, if you know React, check out this: https://github.com/kvnxiao/tauri-nextjs-template

• syncthing-android

  1,233 3,025 9.2 Java

  Wrapper of syncthing for Android.

  

This is the default way Syncthing presents its UI, for instance; starts up a web server, opens the URL in your system's preferred browser.

• spacedrive

  31 28,841 9.9 TypeScript

  Spacedrive is an open source cross-platform file explorer, powered by a virtual distributed filesystem written in Rust.

  

In Tauri (or Axum) the app compiles to a single binary. rspc is the key to this because it allows for multiple transports with the frontend. It supports both Tauri IPC, HTTP or websockets. Our core crate (at ./core) exports an rspc router that is transport agnostic then within the apps (at ./apps/desktop or ./app/server) we expose it with a transport. We use Tauri IPC for desktop and websockets for Axum because we use subscriptions. Then in the wrapper React project (at ./apps/desktop/src/App.tsx) we create the rspc client with the Tauri link, mount its React context and then mount the app package (). You can give the codebase a look if you want cause it’s all open source https://github.com/spacedriveapp/spacedrive

• InfluxDB

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