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Evaluating Electron vs. Tauri for building a desktop app


Evaluating Electron vs. Tauri for building a desktop app


  👤 Nishchit14 Accepted Answer ✓
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.

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👤 az09mugen
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 ?