Rust, Tauri, and React: Our Technology choices for a desktop app in 2022

Rust, Tauri, and React: Our Technology choices for a desktop app in 2022(highflux.io)

6 points by thijser 3 years ago | 2 comments

>Our requirements for the app were: to be lightweight and fast, in other words, use as little CPU cycles and memory as possible. [...] For the GUI, we chose the Tauri platform on which we built a React frontend. Tauri reuses an already installed browser on your system.

Ah, yes, that's one way to "use as little CPU cycles and memory as possible" for sure.

thijser 3 years ago | |

Reusing the already installed browser is better than Electron, which packages its own browser. Many popular apps, like Slack, Asana, Discord, Github Desktop each install a full browser on your system (see https://www.electronjs.org/apps for more).