[pdpi]

The goal is to make a standalone desktop app with access to local resources, so the question is "why should you put your app in a webview instead of Electron or a native toolkit?"

The answer is that Electron forces you to carry a whole Chrome installation around, which is unnecessarily heavy, and (AIUI) you have a node.js backend giving you the means to touch the actual OS, whereas Tauri lets you write Rust (YMMV as to whether that's an advantage). Both Tauri and Electron let you use a web-based interface instead of mucking about with native widgets, which are a pain for cross-platform development.

[cute_boi]

Additionally, we don't have to package whole node js thing.