Rust Desktop App Code Template (following AwesomeApp Blueprint)

Base desktop application code with Tauri, Native Web Components, and SurrealDB (follow the VMES app architecture)

See awesomeapp.dev for more info

Troubleshooting | Changelog | Discord Awesome App

Note: To enable persitent storage, edit the src-tauri/Cargo.toml to enable all surrealdb features.

Hot Reload dev

For hot-reload UI and Tauri development, run the following in your VSCode from this root folder:

awesome-app dev

This assumes awesome-app was installed locally (e.g., cargo install awesome-app)

IMPORTANT - Requires node.js v8 and above.

How it works

awesome-app dev will create an Awesome.toml which will be the list of commands it will run (format is self-explanatory).

You can run the commands manually if you want, or see below for list of commands.

We recommend using awesome-app dev but running each command manually might help troubleshoot.

Build manually

IMPORTANT: Make sure to have node.js latest of 16 or above.

• npm run tauri icon src-tauri/icons/app-icon.png - This will build the application icons.

• npm run pcss - This will build the postcss files (src-ui/pcss/**/*.pcss).

• npm run rollup - This will build and package the typescript files (src-ui/src/**/*.ts).

• npm run localhost - This will run a localhost server with the dist/ folder as root (frontend hot reload)

• In another terminal, npm run tauri dev - Will start the Tauri build and start the process.

Troubleshooting

• Make sure to have node.js 18 or above.

• If some cryptic errors, run the command above one by one.

• If npm tauri dev commands fail, try to do:

  • cd src-tauri
  • cargo build
  • This might be an important first step when using full surrealdb (i.e., with default features and not only kv-mem)

• It failed to compile and came up with the error failed to download replaced source registry crates-io. Deleting the cargo.lock file and package-lock.json file fixed it.

• Installing Tauri in case some issues:

# install latest tauri in case there is none
npm i -g @tauri-apps/cli @tauri-apps/api

Requirements on fedora 36:

On Fedora, and probably linux, the following needs to be present on the system.

dnf install gtk3-devel
dnf install webkit2gtk3-jsc-devel 
dnf install libsoup-devel
dnf install webkit2gtk3-devel.x86_64

Requirements on Ubuntu 20

npm i
npm i -g tauri
sudo aptitude install -y \
  build-essential \
  libpango1.0-dev \
  libsoup2.4-dev \
  libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-dev \
  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev \
  libgtk-3-dev \
  libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev
npm run tauri dev

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