Such a great project. I converted my React-enjoying cofounders to Svelte/SvelteKit worried they wouldn't like it, but they absolutely love it!
We use Svelte extensively at Orb.net for our website (duh), but also as a framework for our desktop and mobile apps. Wails serves our golang and SvelteKit/Svelte provide the UX. It's been tremendous for multiplatform productivity, and binaries are less than 20mb! Nothing like Electron!
+1 for Wails mention: just discovered it recently which brought me to Svelte--couldn't be more impressed. Golang "backend" w/ a Svelte "frontend" to build desktop apps the fraction of the size of Electron is a killer imo.
Not sure, never heard of it, but looking at the README it seems similar but w/ a Rust backend?
We do a lot of data/quant analysis w/ Go which is great for that; then having the opportunity to slap on a lightweight GUI allow us to make some great internal tools etc.
Tauri is Rust, Wails is Go. Rust tooling and builds are heavyweight -- if you are using Rust already, the marginal cost is low, but if you aren't using Rust and want to minimize the weight of the tooling to get your app built, Go is extremely attractive by comparison.
The speed is what I love about Svelte websites. I checked out orb.net; the pages load instantly! I rarely see that with websites built with other frameworks.
Looks like it - they both take the same "don't ship a browser, rely on the OS's built-in browser engine" approach. Unfortunately that approach seems to be great on Windows, okay on Mac, and barely workable on Linux.
Tauri has been trying to dig itself out of that hole for a while by adding CEF support. It looks like they've got that running in the Tauri 3.0 alpha, but I think they may still have some issues with Wayland.
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We use Svelte extensively at Orb.net for our website (duh), but also as a framework for our desktop and mobile apps. Wails serves our golang and SvelteKit/Svelte provide the UX. It's been tremendous for multiplatform productivity, and binaries are less than 20mb! Nothing like Electron!
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We do a lot of data/quant analysis w/ Go which is great for that; then having the opportunity to slap on a lightweight GUI allow us to make some great internal tools etc.
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Tauri has been trying to dig itself out of that hole for a while by adding CEF support. It looks like they've got that running in the Tauri 3.0 alpha, but I think they may still have some issues with Wayland.