Tuesday, June 15th, 2021

Tauri

I build enterprise web applications for a living, and thank G-d I have a job, but I've been unhappy with the state of the Internet and with browsers as the new operating system. So I've been interested in desktop applications, but solutions like Electron, where I can leverage my skill, are bloated and voracious.

Thus I was excited to discover Tauri, a lean alternative, though at the time it was still in alpha. Now it is in a usable state, and I recommend trying it if this sounds interesting.

"Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend."

Solid

At this aforementioned job I use React, which is a wonderful advance over writing JavaScript by hand in large front-end heavy web apps, but it has flaws. It can be counterintuitive and slow.

Looking around at other frameworks I wanted to like Svelte, but it was too much a departure from familiar patterns. So when I found Solid I was thrilled. It is a framework with a face like React and a heart like Svelte.

"A declarative, efficient, and flexible JavaScript library for building user interfaces."

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