Electron vs. Tauri
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Electron vs. Tauri
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Re: Electron vs. Tauri
#2If they didn’t have the nodejs dependency then the Tauri bundle could be as small as 20mb.
Another pro not mentioned is that native integrations (i.e. obj-c on macos) are much easier to do since rust has great ffi integration with other native libraries.
The biggest pro to electron is that it has extensive plugins that are often widely used in production by large companies. But Tauri is definitely winning and any new project should use Tauri no matter what essentially.
Re: Electron vs. Tauri
#3> Lack of support for .appx and .msix bundles on Windows
https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/4818
Whoa, I had no idea about that. Tauri is way less fully baked than I realized.
The bug goes on to explain that Tauri apps can't have Windows "package identity", which means that there's a bunch of Windows APIs you simply can't use in Tauri, including the notifications API.
Without package identity, IMO, Tauri isn't ready for primetime on Windows.
Re: Electron vs. Tauri
#4> Lack of support for .appx and .msix bundles on Windows https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/4818 Whoa, I had no idea about that. Tauri is way less fully baked than I realized. The bug goes on to explain that Tauri apps can't have Windows "package identity", which means that there's a bunch of Windows APIs you simply can't use in Tauri, including the notifications API. Without package identity, IMO, Tauri isn'…
Huh, I thought I'd seen notifications and app URI handlers in a Tauri app. Maybe they were using a custom Wix builder and not the Tauri template though.
Re: Electron vs. Tauri
#5> As you’d expect, this makes Tauri apps far more lightweight.
Note that lightweight compared to Electron does not mean it's actually lightweight. In my experience, Tauri apps are still pretty heavy and a constant drain on system resources; maybe they're 2x better (faster/lighter) compared to an Electron equivalent, but they're still at least 10x worse compared to native apps.
With a Tauri-based app (just like with Electron), I have to constantly remember to close the app at the soonest possible point in time, or I can tangibly feel the sluggishness it creates in the system performance. So if there's a native choice and a Tauri-written choice, I'd heavily prefer the native choice nowadays, even at the cost of some features.
Re: Electron vs. Tauri
#6> As you’d expect, this makes Tauri apps far more lightweight. Note that lightweight compared to Electron does not mean it's actually lightweight. In my experience, Tauri apps are still pretty heavy and a constant drain on system resources; maybe they're 2x better (faster/lighter) compared to an Electron equivalent, but they're still at least 10x worse compared to native apps. With a Tauri-based app (just like with E…
I'm curious what the impact on system resources is between a Tauri-based app versus the web app version opened in a browser window. If the features for both are the same, I imagine the resource utilization is also the same. The only exception might be that browsers such as Chrome will force inactive tabs to sleep.
Readwise Reader is one app I've compared both versions to, and I don't see much difference in resource usage for either version.
Re: Electron vs. Tauri
#7> As you’d expect, this makes Tauri apps far more lightweight. Note that lightweight compared to Electron does not mean it's actually lightweight. In my experience, Tauri apps are still pretty heavy and a constant drain on system resources; maybe they're 2x better (faster/lighter) compared to an Electron equivalent, but they're still at least 10x worse compared to native apps. With a Tauri-based app (just like with E…
Last time I messed with Tauri my bin folder in my code/building directory ballooned to 10 gigs. If the final product is “lightweight” the development process surely is not.
Re: Electron vs. Tauri
#8> As you’d expect, this makes Tauri apps far more lightweight. Note that lightweight compared to Electron does not mean it's actually lightweight. In my experience, Tauri apps are still pretty heavy and a constant drain on system resources; maybe they're 2x better (faster/lighter) compared to an Electron equivalent, but they're still at least 10x worse compared to native apps. With a Tauri-based app (just like with E…
Last time I messed with Tauri my bin folder in my code/building directory ballooned to 10 gigs. If the final product is “lightweight” the development process surely is not.
That’s just Rust in general. But what you lose in disk space you gain considerably in optimized executables. The tradeoff is well worth it.
Re: Electron vs. Tauri
#9How does Wails compare here? I'm guessing it's less mature than Tauri.
Re: Electron vs. Tauri
#10i had a better time vibe coding with gpt 4 with WAILS> vs any of these Electron> Tauri