
Tauri Without Electron Bloat: A Type-Safe JS Runtime Bridge with `tauri-plugin-js`
Tauri Without Electron Bloat: A Type-Safe JS Runtime Bridge with tauri-plugin-js https://github.com/HuakunShen/tauri-plugin-js.git If you love Tauri's small footprint but still need a real JavaScript runtime process, you usually hit a wall: webview code is not enough for some workloads (native modules, long-running compute, local AI tooling, heavyweight filesystem orchestration). This repo shows a clean way around that wall. tauri-plugin-js gives a Tauri v2 app a managed process layer for Bun, Node.js, and Deno, while keeping RPC strongly typed through kkrpc . The key design choice is simple and powerful: Rust handles lifecycle and I/O transport, but the RPC protocol remains end-to-end JavaScript. The architecture in one sentence Rust is a process/event relay, JavaScript is the RPC protocol owner. You can see this split directly in the code: Process management and stdio relay live in src/desktop.rs . Tauri command surface is in src/commands.rs , registered in src/lib.rs . Frontend tran
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