applications

Applications

Active contributors: Douwe de Vries

CSV Align ships two runtime shapes from one codebase: a local web application and a native desktop application. Both use the React frontend and the shared Rust backend workflows.

Applications

Application	Page	Entry points
Local web app	Local web app	`src/main.rs`, `src/api/app.rs`, `frontend/dist`
Desktop app	Desktop app	`src-tauri/src/main.rs`, `src-tauri/src/commands.rs`, `frontend/src/services/tauri.ts`

Shared path

graph LR
    Browser[Browser runtime] --> HTTP[Axum routes]
    Desktop[Tauri runtime] --> Invoke[Tauri commands]
    HTTP --> Shared[Shared backend workflows]
    Invoke --> Shared
    Shared --> Store[SessionStore]
    Shared --> Engine[Comparison engine]

The runtime split is explained in architecture. Transport details are in transport parity.

Key source files

File	Purpose
`src/main.rs`	Starts the local Axum server and static file serving.
`src/api/app.rs`	Builds API routes and the fallback frontend file server.
`src-tauri/src/main.rs`	Builds the Tauri app and registers commands.
`src-tauri/src/commands.rs`	Desktop command implementations and native file dialogs.
`src-tauri/tauri.conf.json`	Desktop dev/build commands, CSP, windows, and bundle config.