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Ask HN: Tauri or Node-GUI?
I'm searching for an Electron alternative to create a native desktop app using Svelte as renderer. Should do it with Tauri or node-GUI?
PS: the app is an IDE that connects to remote Smalltalk backends.
- hardwaresofton 5y agoTauri was really good when I used it. I can say that the ecosystem around Tauri is pretty darn good, despite how early it is, and Rust at the back is encouraging to me at least -- I'm much happier to write the back bits in Rust than anything else. I planned to write an article about it (what I ran into, the architecture that worked for me to support multiple platforms with reusable parts, etc), but haven't. Unfortunately I haven't tried Node-GUI so I can't comment on it. There's the fundamental difference of how they work though -- Tauri is webviews and Node-GUI is rendering to QT so I think this is maybe the biggest axis to evaluate against.
- d--b 5y agoIf you're looking for something to deliver an app you can share/sell, you should still do Electron. Tauri is still quite early and I don't know about node-gui (likely the same). Electron is stable and has figured out all the quirks of delivering apps to windows and macos (packaging, signing, notarizing, etc.) which are a massive pain in the butt. The memory usage is terrible, but at least, you can deliver something.