Tauri and Electron
The idea of building desktop apps with HTML/CSS/JS is not new. The two largest branches are Electron and Tauri, and although they look similar, their architectures are quite different.
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Cross-platform options compared (Tauri · Flutter · RN)
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The idea of building desktop apps with HTML/CSS/JS is not new. The two largest branches are Electron and Tauri, and although they look similar, their architectures are quite different.
The desire to build the same app for iOS, Android, and the web from a single codebase has been around for a long time. The tools that emerged as answers picked different approaches in different eras. Some sit on top of…