Overview

Tauri enables you to make apps using the Webview technology stack that each operating system provides. It empowers you to call into the app backend using a JS api, which gives you opt-in access to things like the filesystem. All of this is done without needing to ship a localhost server and while maintaining a secure context for your application. Tauri apps can have custom menus and tray-type interfaces. They can be updated securely, and are managed by the user's operating system as expected. Their ultimate binaries are very small, because they not only use the system's webview, they also do not need to ship a runtime (like Node.js), since the final binary is compiled from Rust. This makes Tauri apps quite small and performant, and also turns the reversing of Tauri apps into a task that is neither trivial nor fun. In short, Tauri is a toolkit for creating smaller, faster, and more secure desktop apps with a web frontend. Tauri's core system is written in stable Rust and currently uses that for the main process. However, you do not need to write Rust code to interact.