Built using Tauri

[huomutech]

Tauri has higher performance than electron. It is written in Rust and calls WebView without plugging in a chrome.

[graphit0]

Feature Request: drop Electron start using Tauri

Seeking to start using Joplin as a tool for my one-man business i'm sad to see it doesn't work well enough. Reasons for this are plugins can stop Joplin from starting Joplin Appimage froze the entire system many many open issues these issues strongly hint at serious memory management issues I share this as an afterthought while i start looking for a replacement. Consider to rework Joplin to build on something much more memory safe such as for example: tauri studio

Consider Tauri instead of Electron

tauri Tauri is a toolkit that helps developers make applications for the major desktop platforms - using virtually any frontend framework in existence. The core is built with Rust and the CLI leverages Node.js making Tauri a genuinely polyglot approach to creating and maintaining great apps.

Desktop - Moving From Electron to Native to Future-Proof All Platforms

I think Tauri would be the best solution for this app since Tauri is a lightweight alternative to Electron which plans to allow for compiling to Android and iOS in the future. And Tauri apps are written with web languages which is what Joplin is written in, the transformation would not be a complete rewrite. Another good solution is Flutter which allows for apps to be compile for desktop and mobile but will require a complete rewrite of Joplin since Fultter uses Dart as its programming language…

[james-carroll]

Tauri can make sense in some cases, but calling the system webview in something like Joplin would be risky in my personal opinion. For the Linux users for example, you're talking hundreds of different possibilities of WebKitGTK across 10+ years of releases and however many distributions that might be supported, including distributions that might not have a system webview or the user goes out their way to remove it. The problem's less drastic on other platforms, but that still means the WebView on MacOS is nothing like the WebView on Windows for example with completely different compatibilites.

I'm averse to Electron in general but I feel the usage in Joplin is different to the one's I'd usually complain about because Joplin actually fits its model well and the app itself is featureful. When we're talking about the telephony app I've been forced to install at work and is 4 years out of date to do nothing other than show a dialpad and make a call, I'd have a similar opinion and say they should have used OS WebViews.

[johano]

Thanks for the extra context, Tauri seemed an attractive idea at first sight, but given what you say Electron now appears to me the better fit.