Tauri – Creating Tiny Desktop Apps With React/Vue

Re:Tauri – Creating Tiny Desktop Apps With React/Vue by iainmerrick on Saturday August 13, 2022 @12:51AM (#32447021)

The “bare metal” approach (which in practice would be something like GL, right?) is good for games, but is it good for apps?

Ideally you want something that uses the host’s UI conventions, works correctly with keyboard shortcuts, uses accessibility APIs, can drag-and-drop with other apps, etc. Using a DOM UI will get you a lot of that without too much effort. Using a WebGL UI won’t.

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Re:Tauri – Creating Tiny Desktop Apps With React/Vue by cercatrova on Saturday August 13, 2022 @12:56AM (#32447046)

I'd say it is good for apps, as long as the framework developer also adds those things you mentioned into the framework. Flutter currently has decent shortcuts and accessibility. Of course, if they don't add these in, then yes it will be worse than a DOM UI, if only because the DOM has been engineered over the past few decades to add these features in natively.

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Re:Tauri – Creating Tiny Desktop Apps With React/Vue by iainmerrick on Saturday August 13, 2022 @04:49AM (#32448046)

I didn’t know that about Flutter! What’s a good example of a desktop app built using their framework?

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