[TimFogarty]

I have been using Tauri for a macOS app I'm making[1] and it has been great. The app is only 11MB and I've had most of the APIs I'd need.

However, there are still some rough edges that have been annoying to work with. I think for my next project I will actually go back to electron. There are two issues that caused me pain:

1. I can't use Playwright to run e2e tests on the tauri app itself. That's because the webview doesn't expose the Chrome DevTools Protocol, and the tauri-driver [2] does not work on MacOS.

2. Security Scoped Resources aren't fully implemented which means if a user gets the app through the app store the app won't be able to remember file permissions between runs [3]. It's not too much of an issue since I probably won't release it on the app store, but still annoying.

But I hope Tauri continues to grow and we start seeing apps use it more.

[1] https://tidyfox.app/

[2] https://v2.tauri.app/develop/tests/webdriver/

[3] https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/3716

[moogly]

I have also used Tauri for one of my private apps, and using the OS's webview just doesn't work for me, so for my next stuff I'm probably going to use Electron as well since you can embed the webview. Yeah, it's bloated, but I'm so tired of things not working properly on Wayland without disabling this and that with random env vars and not able to do a fully OOTB single portable AppImage build on Linux. I can either make it work in Kubuntu + Arch (building on Ubuntu), or Arch + Fedora (building on Arch), but not all 3.

I tried Uno Platform and AvaloniaUI last year but I had similar problems there with external drag 'n' drop not working on Wayland and the difficulty in writing your own advanced components of which there are oodles to choose from using React/Vue/Solid/Svelte.

I'm not rewriting that other app in Electron, so for Tauri (the development of which largely seems to have stalled?) I'm hoping this[1] will solve my Linux hurdles. Going to try that branch out.

[1]: https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/pull/12491

And this is just desktop Linux. I used to care about Windows but stopped building for that.

[adisinghyc]

such a real problem, tested the webdriver myself. really should be something to automate e2e tests via an mcp for tauri aswell.