Tauri: A Rust-based framework for building cross-platform desktop and mobile apps with web frontends
Summary
Tauri is an open-source framework for building desktop and mobile applications using web front-end technologies (HTML, JS, CSS) with a Rust-powered backend. It produces smaller, faster, and more secure binaries compared to alternatives like Electron, leveraging system webviews via the WRY library and window handling via tao across all major platforms including macOS, Windows, Linux, Android, and iOS.
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Developers can integrate any front-end framework that compiles to HTML, JS and CSS for building their user interface.
The backend of the application is a rust-sourced binary with an API that the front-end can interact with.
Tauri uses WRY, a library which provides a unified interface to the system webview, leveraging WKWeb
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