Custom folder for Rust source code

[crapStone]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I want to split my codebase into two separate folders: the ui/app and a rust workspace where one of the crates is the tauri app and the rest are libraries that are used by the app.

Describe the solution you'd like
My idea was to add options to the package.json and tauri.conf.json to specify the relative path to the respectively other config.

folder structure:

.
├── crates
│   ├── lib1
│   │   ├── Cargo.toml
│   │   └── src
│   ├── lib2
│   │   ├── Cargo.toml
│   │   └── src
│   └── tauri_app
│       ├── Cargo.toml
│       ├── src
│       └── tauri.conf.json
├── LICENSE
├── README.md
└── ui
    ├── package.json
    └── src

package.json:

{
  "tauri": {
    "rustConfigPath": "../crates/tauri_app/"
  }
}

tari.conf.json

{
  "build": {
    "appPath": "../../ui/",
  }
}

Describe alternatives you've considered
I found this commit but it requires the app and tauri app to be just one folder level apart.

[dannymcgee]

I would also really appreciate this feature. I use Nx to manage my TypeScript workspaces, and without this, it doesn't look like there's a clean way to integrate a Tauri app into my existing projects. I haven't really started investigating workarounds though — I'll comment with a follow-up if I come up with something.

[dannymcgee]

I haven't really started investigating workarounds though — I'll comment with a follow-up if I come up with something.

I came up with an okay workaround for Nx by using a global install of @tauri-apps/cli and executing the command with an explicit working directory. Trying to use npm run tauri dev instead of tauri dev always fails, regardless of the cwd setting — I'm assuming that's because my node_modules directory is in an unexpected location (two folders up from where it would be normally).

[lodmfjord]

I really want this feature too. Any reason why you closed this?

[amrbashir]

you can now rename it and have it nested too up to three levels. Just rename and move, if the cli doesn't pick it up let us know.