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tauri-apps / tauri

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

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

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since this is for security: I'm quite uncomfortable with the way APIs are exposed to the browser instance that does the UI rendering. As far as I can see from the code,…

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Observed mentions: 2019-11-19 09:08:01 UTC to 2026-08-31 20:11:14 UTC.

01020302019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 16 mentions; 3 submissions, 13 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 17 mentions; 0 submissions, 17 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 30 mentions; 8 submissions, 22 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 12 mentions; 2 submissions, 10 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 0 submissions, 8 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 0 submissions, 9 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC16313
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC17017
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC30822
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC12210
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC808
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC909

What Hacker News says

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gavinray·Sep 26, 2020
If people complain about the binary size and/or memory usage, one tip would be to see if it'll run with either NW.js or Tauri, should be close to a drop-in replacement. Tauri is even smaller than NW.js (I think ~600kb hello-world binary size) but uses Rust in it's toolchain way under the hood to build, so take that as either a positive or a negative. https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri NW.js is essentially lighter-weight Electron. https://github.com/nwjs/nw.js Would be neat if it was a straighforward implementation and produced tiny self-containing cross-platform binaries. Disclaimer: I also have no idea how gamedev works though, so this might not be applicable
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zemnmez·Jul 8, 2020Recommendation phrase
since this is for security: I'm quite uncomfortable with the way APIs are exposed to the browser instance that does the UI rendering. As far as I can see from the code, extremely sensitive functions such as 'execute' are attached directly to the window [1][4], then they are invoked by postMessaging into the topmost window [2][3]. This makes XSS in essence immediate remote code execution, but more pointedly it voids some of the security guarantees about iframes, which can assumedly use window.top.postMessage() to post the 'execute' call directly to the browser. If you're developing, e.g. a chat app, you might use iframes to support, for example OEMBED -- and then even codepen oembeds may well be able to execute code. I like this direction for applications, but browser security protocols are a nightmare to replicate properly. I recommend us
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ing pre-existing interfaces for launching apps like custom scheme URIs, or if really necessary writing individual handlers for the heavy lifting. I think the postMessage approach is great, too but it's vital that the caller `origin` is checked. The web app shouldn't need to run arbitrary commands on the computer. [1]: https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/blob/2681ad361b4295756be... [2]: https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/blob/015474657c955c7ad29... [3]: https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/blob/c8f430297f95df16216... [4]: https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/blob/c8f430297f95df16216...
In Tauri – toolchain for building secure native apps that have tiny binaries
eximius·May 15, 2020
There's always Electron, Wasm, and the few smatterings of decent GUI frameworks being worked on. Also https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri which claims to be a... Light, more native Electron? Just depends what you want. A common pattern is essentially to build your app as a Rust library or CLI binary that your GUI wraps in whatever is most convenient for the GUI
In Five Years of Rust
veidr·Feb 1, 2020Recommendation phrase
Keybase is a little like "Linux on the desktop". I love it, I use it. With my help, even my dad can use it. The underlying architecture is righteous, it's open-source, and I want it to be good enough so that everybody can use it... but it's just not. Too many basic things that "normal people" want to do just don't work well enough. Keybase's desktop and mobile apps sometimes hang while decrypting old messages, and until you force quit, the messages won't load. The Mac app gets into this mode where it can't be hidden, and just insists on staying on the screen. It doesn't work at all, for any reasonable value of work, on the iPad (it shows a tiny little phone-sized window that fills about 25% of the screen, and doesn't support rotate so it's rotated 90 degrees if you try to type into it with the keyboard). Etc. OTOH, the underlying platform
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seems well-designed and that's obviously where most of the effort is going — it's been a steady march of new and valuable features. They only added the chat feature itself 3 years ago. Keybase git, Stellar wallet, Keybase SSH, the awesome new bot architecture... While I too wish the apps were smooth and polished, Keybase might be right to focus on the platform first. Making a good app using cross-platform UI toolkits is hard. Those toolkits are evolving fast, too. It's not inconceivable that in another 3 years, the apps they have today will have been completely replaced by new ones based on a next-generation UI library that runs on top of Tauri[1] or whatever the new hotness is in 2023, and maybe those will be smoother and more polished due to general advances in cross-platform app cores and UI libraries, and if that happens we might end up being glad that the Keybase people spent their energy on building out this reliable crypto platform instead of trying to fix Electron's window layering bugs or whatever. But yeah, in 2020, I agree the Keybase app's aren't even close to being polished enough to replace Slack for most people. (And Slack itself is pretty awful!) [1] https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri (no idea if that will take off, it's just an example)
In New Cryptographic Tools on Keybase

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