Tauri 2 Has a Free API That Lets You Build Desktop Apps With Web Tech — No Electron Bloat
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The Desktop App Problem Electron apps eat 200MB+ of RAM just sitting in your taskbar. Your users notice. Your laptop fan notices. Tauri 2 fixes this. Built on Rust, it wraps your existing HTML/CSS/JS in a native webview — your app ships at 2-5MB and uses 10x less memory than Electron. What Tauri 2 Gives You (Free) The IPC Bridge — Web Meets Native Tauri's invoke() API bridges JavaScript and Rust: import { invoke } from '@tauri-apps/api/core'; // Call Rust f