--- title: Goodbye Electron. Hello Tauri, A Rust-powered Backend... description: Electron is a Rust-powered Backend Framework paired with a React frontend to offer an awesome browser-less experience. Tauri is a toolkit that helps developers... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/goodbye-electron-hello-tauri-a-rust-powered-backend-framework-acabzgkdv twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Goodbye Electron. Hello Tauri, A Rust-powered Backend Framework | daily.dev og:description: Electron is a Rust-powered Backend Framework paired with a React frontend to offer an awesome browser-less experience. Tauri is a toolkit that helps developers... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/goodbye-electron-hello-tauri-a-rust-powered-backend-framework-acabzgkdv og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/AcaBZGkDV.png og:image:alt: Goodbye Electron. Hello Tauri, A Rust-powered Backend Framework 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, A Rust-powered Backend Framework **[Better Programming](https://daily.dev/sources/btrprog)** · [@dedsyn4ps3](https://daily.dev/dedsyn4ps3) · 3 min read · 278 upvotes · 13 comments ## Summary Electron is a Rust-powered Backend Framework paired with a React frontend to offer an awesome browser-less experience. Tauri is a toolkit that helps developers make applications for the major desktop platforms — using virtually any frontend framework in existence. For completeness, you can find the entire code base for my community project on my Gitlab. ## 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. **@daniumx** · 6 upvotes > Not willing to learn an entire new programming language just for a slight performance boost. **@okkashaally** · 2 upvotes > OMG **@fabrikat** · 1 upvotes > Tried it. Works well. Same as https://wails.io/ which is for Go backends. But: do you want to rewrite your backend in Rust/Go? If your app is 90% frontend, you're probably good to go. Otherwise... **@nitinreddy3** · 1 upvotes > That's really cool 😎 **@chris1369** · 0 upvotes > DAMN Brooooooooooo ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Unveils Schedule for KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Europe 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-unveils-schedule-for-kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2026-ikhcoa5cb) · CNCF · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Debuts KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 Schedule](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-debuts-kubecon-cloudnativecon-japan-2026-schedule-xp5pyudub) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#backend](https://daily.dev/tags/backend), [#electron](https://daily.dev/tags/electron), [#frontend](https://daily.dev/tags/frontend), [#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-a-rust-powered-backend-framework-acabzgkdv) ```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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