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Ask HN: Evaluating Electron vs. Tauri for building a desktop app

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5 points by Nishchit14 2 years ago · 3 comments

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Nishchit14OP 2 years ago

I tested Electron and Tauri for building a desktop app. Electron bundles Nodejs runtime but has a 230MB+ bundle size. Tauri is ~15x smaller but requires Rust services or Nodejs hacks. Here's a comparison of the tradeoffs.

Nishchit14OP 2 years ago

Here is the detailed comment,

https://github.com/firecamp-dev/firecamp/issues/62#issuecomm...

az09mugen 2 years ago

I don't know much of native web view (which is the one used by tauri/rust), and since I hear a lot about WASM, could it be possible to embed the node js part as a wasm module ?

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