--- title: Goodbye Electron. Hello Tauri! | daily.dev description: Learn about Tauri, a Rust-powered backend framework paired with a React frontend for creating standalone desktop applications. Discover its advantages,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/goodbye-electron-hello-tauri--kmovlej61 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Goodbye Electron. Hello Tauri! | daily.dev og:description: Learn about Tauri, a Rust-powered backend framework paired with a React frontend for creating standalone desktop applications. Discover its advantages,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/goodbye-electron-hello-tauri--kmovlej61 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/KmOvLEJ61.png og:image:alt: Goodbye Electron. Hello Tauri! og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Goodbye Electron. Hello Tauri! **[DEV](https://daily.dev/sources/devto)** · [@dedsyn4ps3](https://daily.dev/dedsyn4ps3) · 4 min read · 550 upvotes · 49 comments ## Summary Learn about Tauri, a Rust-powered backend framework paired with a React frontend for creating standalone desktop applications. Discover its advantages, including smaller binary sizes compared to Electron. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@andrei0x309** · 6 upvotes > I used tauri a bit everything was great in my case... > > The only downside, compilation is a bit slow plus it created 10GB folder of deps in order to build my project which wasn't very complex. **@ryandotfurrer** · 5 upvotes > I keep seeing more and more hype about things built with Rust 🤔 I'll have to give this a look **@henriqueschroeder** · 2 upvotes > How fascinating! I'm excited to see how Tauri can revolutionize the way we develop desktop applications. The combination of Rust on the backend and React on the frontend promises an amazing experience with a much more reasonable final file size! **@kuyawa** · 2 upvotes > Built my first app, blazing fast and damn small. Love it! > > Thanks for sharing **@0armaan025** · 2 upvotes > It feels like rust is getting a new look, gotta learn rust! 🔥🔥 --- Tags: [#electron](https://daily.dev/tags/electron), [#javascript](https://daily.dev/tags/javascript), [#react](https://daily.dev/tags/react), [#rust](https://daily.dev/tags/rust), [#tauri](https://daily.dev/tags/tauri) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/goodbye-electron-hello-tauri--kmovlej61) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Goodbye Electron. 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