Ask HN: How to choose the desktop platform and tech for desktop app development?

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  • upvpn-app

    UpVPN is the world's first Serverless VPN. The VPN app is available for macOS, Linux, Windows, and Android. The UpVPN service can also be used with any WireGuard compatible client using the Web Device feature.

    • I shipped desktop app for all three major OS Linux, Windows and macOS.

    Because of the programming choices of Rust for application/backend and Typescript for frontend - Tauri was perfect fit for me.

    So far Tauri documentation has been sufficient (and good) for me to achieve what I wanted inside the application. However, platform specific packaging required extra effort because the app required installation of system service/daemon in addition to the frontend app binary - so platform specific pre-install and post-install scripts which setup (or remove on uninstall) those daemon services were not natively supported in Tauri packaging.

    You can browse the code here to see what it takes to package and sign installer for various desktop platforms: https://github.com/upvpn/upvpn-app

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