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Desktop technology
Tauridevelopment expertise.
A framework for building tiny, blazing fast binaries for all major desktop platforms.
Category
Desktop
Learning curve
Moderate
Introduced
2021
Overview
Where Tauri fits in a modern product.
Tauri is a framework for building lightweight, secure desktop applications using web technologies with a Rust backend. It produces tiny binaries by leveraging system webviews instead of bundling Chromium.
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Small Bundles
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Cross-platform
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Webview-based
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System Tray
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Auto Updater
Product use cases
What teams build with Tauri.
The technology is most valuable when its strengths match the product, team and operating context.
Desktop Apps
Cross-platform Tools
Privacy-Focused Apps
Embedded Web UIs
System Utilities
Engineering assessment
Strengths and trade-offs, considered together.
Technology selection should account for product requirements, team capability, ecosystem maturity and long-term ownership.
Strengths
- Tiny bundle sizes
- Improved performance
- Enhanced security
- Cross-platform
- Flexible frontend
- Rust backend
Considerations
- Less mature than Electron
- Limited native APIs
- Smaller community
- Webview inconsistencies
Getting started
Install prerequisites, scaffold project, choose frontend framework, implement Rust commands, and build cross-platform binaries.
Best practices
Optimize asset loading, implement proper error handling, use Rust for heavy tasks, follow security guidelines.
Ecosystem
Tauri ecosystem includes plugins, UI toolkits, Vite integration, and growing collection of community plugins.
Related technologies
Explore the surrounding ecosystem.
Compare adjacent frameworks, platforms and tools that commonly support similar product goals.