Tauri

[d0z4rt]

Heya, I thought it would be nice to be able to run the app in 'standalone' using Tauri. This is a work-in-progress and I wanted to open up the discussion to see if this idea might interests you :)

see: https://tauri.app/

[satelllte]

Hey @d0z4rt 👋🏻
This is great idea! How easy do you think it would be to finish this?

EDIT: I'm thinking, maybe it might be just easier to add support for Progressive Web App (PWA) for this app?

[d0z4rt]

I don't think it's going be too complicated since Tauri is just used to run the web app and doesn't require additional code, tho in the future you could make fancy exporting methods or even move some calculations to Rust but you'll need a js fallback in order for the app to still work in a browser (using OffscreenCanvas for example as you already mentioned in one of your issue).
In short you might say it's already done since you can compile an executable and run it ^^

Imo the hardest part of adding tauri to this repo is handling builds with GitHub actions, there is some guidance here but I haven't tried yet.

As for PWA they're interesting on mobile but sadly it's not fully supported on desktop yet. See: PWA Browser support

[satelllte]

OK, I see. I'll take a look later then...

[d0z4rt]

Hey,
I added the basic workflow to compile the app for Mac (intel and arm), Ubuntu and Windows.
The workflow needs to be run manually (I used the workflow_dispatch event) so you can play around with it.

It uses a matrix in order to build for all platforms and produce a draft release with all the artifacts. You can also disable this behavior and use the action actions/upload-artifact like you already did on your ci.yml workflow. Read more over tauri-action

[satelllte]

@d0z4rt Hi! I was thinking about this for a while and the current UI of the app feels like not that well prepared to be a desktop one. It's mostly because of the scroll presence, while for the desktop I think it should be more compact and have some kind of panels. So for now, I'll put this idea on hold, and I hope you'll understand.

Thanks for your efforts! I'll leave this PR as is and come back later to it when it's time for this change :)

[d0z4rt]

Heya, no worries I understand 😁