554: Desktop apps in JS × Electron and Tauri

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

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🗓️ 26 December 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the current state of building desktop apps with Electron or Tauri. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health. Cut your time on error resolution from hours to minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners new to Sentry can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code TASTYTREAT during sign up. Prismic - Sponsor Prismic is a Headless CMS that makes it easy to build website pages as a set of components. Break pages into sections of components using React, Vue, or whatever you like. Make corresponding Slices in Prismic. Start building pages dynamically in minutes. Get started at prismic.io/syntax. Show Notes 00:33 Welcome 01:18 Sponsor: Sentry 02:47 Sponsor: Prismic 04:01 Our experience with building desktop apps Level Up Tutorials: Level 1 Electron Hair.WesBos.com 10:04 Frameworks for building apps 10:56 Tauri vs Electron Tauri Electron 23:38 Tooling vite-plugin-electron Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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0:00.0	Monday! Monday! Monday! Open wide dev fans! Get ready! To stuff your face with
0:07.0	JavaScript CSS! Node modules! Barbecue tips! Get workflows! Break dancing! Soft skills!
0:12.0	Web development! The hastiest! The Carrazius! The tastiest! Web development
0:17.0	treats! Coming in hot! Here is Wes! Barakuda! Boss! And Scott El Torro Lugo!
0:24.0	Tolinsky!
0:27.0	Welcome to syntax on this Monday hasty treat. We're going to be talking all about desktop apps
0:35.0	using JavaScript or TypeScript if you prefer using Electron or Tori, which are two of the,
0:43.0	I would say the V2 platforms out there for doing this type of thing nowadays.
0:47.0	My name is Scott Talensky, I'm a developer from Denver, and with me as always is Wes Boss.
0:53.0	Hey everybody, I am stoked to talk about both of these things today.
0:58.0	Actually, I think it's really cool. Yeah, I'm stoked too. I'm actually in the same
1:02.0	universe right now. I was firing up a Tori up the other day.
1:06.0	Yeah, I'm interested to hear some of your thoughts.
1:10.0	I've actually been having my eye on Tori since it was like version zero point,
1:14.0	whatever, and alpha. So to see it finally move along to this point is very exciting.
1:19.0	So let's, uh, before we get into these platforms, let's talk a little bit about
1:23.0	two of our sponsors today. The first sponsor is century at century.io.
1:27.0	It's a great place to see all of your errors and exceptions happen in your application.
1:32.0	In fact, like I said, in previous ad reads here, we've been using this pretty substantially
1:37.0	lately, considering while we have a new site launch, and that always brings about
1:41.0	its own special type of bugs and special types of things you don't find.
1:46.0	And me personally, one of the things I love about century is giving me the confidence
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