Rust

Tauri App for UI in Rust

Harsha Teja

Sep 1, 2022 • 1 min read

It's time to decide on the UI framework for my project.

Here are the requirements and constraints

* Single resource with only backend and systems development expertise
* Not very complex UI
* Rust as backend language
* Should be able to get Web developers as contributors later easily. So JS/TS frameworks support is needed.
* Quality sample applications
* Native OS support is needed for number crunching, data processing, and container technology interfacing.
* Open source community and ecosystem.

For the above requirements, I landed on Tauri

A quick search resulted in some good endorsements

One example application is somewhat similar to what I have in mind. Here Awesome Tauri

Right away decided to support it with a tiny contribution as well.

Alternatives

Mighty Flutter, But I do not have the bandwidth to learn Dart and a new framework now. Need to leverage my little ReactJS knowledge.
No UI development, but this might make the project not very useful.

Tip

Check out this open-source Tauri app for US Tax filing applications that runs locally(no data sharing) on your computer.
https://github.com/ustaxes/ustaxes

Excellent introductory YouTube video here