Package All the Things

• slint

  138 15,289 9.9 Rust

  Slint is a declarative GUI toolkit to build native user interfaces for Rust, C++, or JavaScript apps.

  

Aurindam Jana (slint.dev)

• cargo-packager

  2 178 9.4 Rust

  Rust executable packager, bundler and updater.

  

Today we are pleased to share cargo-packager. It is Apache-2/MIT licensed, available as a Cargo subcommand, and even as a library so it can be easily integrated into any workflow. You can configure it with a json file, a toml file, with CLI flags, or as [package.metadata.packager] metadata in a Cargo.toml file. To make sure it works, we have tested it with a few examples of frameworks you might already have heard about:

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• tauri-action

  5 732 9.4 TypeScript

  Build your Web application as a Tauri binary for macOS, Linux and Windows

  

Anyone can cargo build --release, but there wasn’t (and still isn’t) a standard method for creating, shipping, and verifying updates for GUI apps. So the Tauri Working Group (of which many employees of CrabNebula are members) built one. They even created an open source GitHub action to make it easy to manufacture and ship bundles and their updates.

• dioxus

  155 18,613 9.9 Rust

  Fullstack GUI library for web, desktop, mobile, and more.

  

You can probably imagine the challenges of integrating such a system in a robust way that does a good job and improves on the status quo. We felt like the Tauri implementation worked well for Tauri apps. But there’s a problem: it was so tightly coupled to Tauri that the work couldn’t be enjoyed by other projects (not even the ones like Dioxus who were using Tauri’s underlying technology of Tao + Wry).

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