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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Tauri Vs Electron - Desktop Apps with Web Tech

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the building desktop apps using Electron vs Tauri. Show Notes 00:26 Welcome 00:55 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 01:15 Check my hair app Tauri Apps Electron Hand Mirror on the Mac App Store SoFriendly/2fhey 04:19 What is Tauri? 08:23 The experience of writing apps in Electron vs Tauri 16:17 Electron Forge 20:02 Building the same app in Electron vs Tauri 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 Wes Bos on Bluesky Scott on Bluesky Syntax on Bluesky

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0:00.0

Monday. Monday. Day. Open wide dev fans. Get ready. To stuff your face with JavaScript CSS.

0:08.2

Node modules. Barbecue tips. Get workflow. Break dancing. Soft skills. Web development.

0:12.8

The hastiest. The courageous. The tastiest. Web development treats. Coming in hot.

0:18.4

Here is Wes Barakuda. Boss. And Scott El Torro Lugo. Tolinsky.

0:25.0

Oh, welcome to syntax on this Monday. Hey,

0:30.7

street. We're going to be talking about building desktop applications.

0:34.9

And specifically, the difference between your options using WebTech

0:39.1

to build things with both Tori and Electron. You may have heard of these options. We're going

0:44.2

to be talking about what they are and what the difference between both of them is.

0:49.2

My name is Scott Tolinsky. I'm a developer from Denver with me as always as

0:53.2

West Boss. And with us, as always, also is a century who presents this podcast.

1:00.4

Head on over to sentry.io to learn why you need air and exception handling in your applications.

1:06.5

If you're pushing stuff out to users. So check it out.

1:10.4

Desktop applications. Wes, have you had any experience building desktop apps in any regard?

1:15.8

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Like we did a Tori episode what? Like six months ago when Tori first came out.

1:22.5

And I had built a an app called like check my hair or something like that where it was like I

1:28.8

wanted to build a menu bar application where I just click it because often when I want to check

1:32.9

my camera, I'll open up photo booth and switch the camera and photo booth crops it weird,

1:38.5

which is really annoying. So it doesn't show you the full frame depending on the aspect ratio

1:43.2

of the video. So I thought, like, let's just build something in WebTech, right? So I built

1:48.9

an electron and then everyone's like, you should have used Tori. So I rebuilt it in Tori

1:54.5

to just to learn how it works. But since then, I have not built anything else in it. I know you've

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