Electron vs Tauri: This Was Unexpected!!

► Electron vs Tauri: This Was Unexpected!!

Electron is a free and open-source software framework developed and maintained by GitHub. The framework is designed to create desktop applications using web technologies. Recently, Tauri a secure, and frontend-independent application uses Rust as backend and takes a very similar approach but with a very less expense comparing to Electron. The results are shocking!

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[FadedFearSim]

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[nasz_komputer]

Electron dev trying tauri:
"Noooo, where is my high ram and cpu consuming node.js?"

[jabadahut]

I'm mostly just waiting for WebGPU to become a major thing and for Tauri to support it myself.

[hanzofuma]

Quick note Tauri uses Microsoft Edge's Web View2 on Window, WebKit Gtk on Linux and WebKit on Mac.

[richardyao]

I just did an experiment with an electron application I made. With some minor changes and less than 100 lines if C, I can replace electron with WebKit. I think I will be migrating to that.

[Zen-rwfz]

man I absolutely hate how slow so many of these modern apps, are I don't get at all why people keep up with all of it just because it somehow looks prettier, some years ago I would much rather just use some really old software just because it ran much faster. tauri really sounds exciting if it can really offer this performance with the looks

[sbritorodr]

That's good but I'm guessing your aren't using all 100% of tauri capabilities. You're comparing frontend vs frontend were isn't much diferrence. However, tauri using rust as backend completely demolishes electron, since is a lower level language

[thebinary]

Damn I might just switch to Tauri. It looks promising
thx btw dash

[ramtinabadi]

Expected Tauri to use far less memory. 100+ mb for a simple ap is still way too much. Wonder what is the memory footprint of the flutter

[oussamasethoum]

Another one cool close to Tauri which is Wails V2

[vladislavkaras]

Huh... I did not not know the difference was so high!
Thanks for the video!

[neofox]

what linux desktop environment are you using?

[pkingo]

Tauri unfortunately doesn't support embedded webviews which was a dealbreaker for my project.

[zaidali]

I really wanna get started but I can't find any good tutorial videos. Can you tell me how did you learn this?

[slartibartfasttynsol]

Tauri sounds great, but I have a few reservations -
first off (and this is the main one), it uses different browsers on different platforms (Edge on windows, Webkit GTK on linux and Webkit on mac), so will I have consistent behavior? Not sure I want to have to test my app 3 times.
Second, it seems new, so will there be the forums, plugin ecosystem etc.. Also, how mature is it - will I end up having to rework my app 3 or 4 times as the devs figure out the best way to do things?

Don't get me wrong - great improvements over Electron, and I love the competition. Personally, I'm going to give it a year or two to mature, but then I'll give it a go.

[elanza]

Oh man what btop theme and config you are using ?

[hakim_jazuli]

fair, fair...
now let's compare the build time...

[glatocha]

First off all, if you start with "I hate electron", kind of makes you bias all the way. Then you are showing one app with 114BM and other with 130MB memory use and trying to convince us that this "can be" great difference.
Tauri has it's benefits, smaller size, great utilities that let you do a lot stuff from your frontend (system dialogs, file system access etc.). One of the minuses of Tauri is the first download and installation. This requires a lot of downloading, first dev compilation, the same, first build same. From somebody with bad connection and behind VPN this is a killer. Took me several hours to get the Hello World to compile.
Also, electron can build an app with simple .exe, how to do that in Tauri? without instaler?

[drjones]

In your experience are you using HTML or react thanks

[CommitSNIPS]

Can you do a video on your linux setup? Looks cool