minimal-tauri-cli

minimal-tauri-cli

A minimal wrapper for a prebuilt version of tauri's cli, without any dependencies. Initially created for CI/CD to reduce installation time and size of the node_modules/ folder.

Downloads the cli from https://github.com/tauri-apps/binary-releases and forwards any calls like npm tauri dev to the binary.

About Tauri

See: https://tauri.studio and https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri

Installation

This package is meant to be installed locally as a development dependency:

$ npm install --save-dev minimal-tauri-cli
$ yarn add --dev minimal-tauri-cli
$ pnpm install --dev minimal-tauri-cli

Usage

Example syntax:

$ pnpm tauri dev

To forward arguments like --debug you might need to prefix them with an extra --:

$ pnpm tauri build -- --debug

tauri help:

$ pnpm tauri help

USAGE:
    cargo tauri [SUBCOMMAND]

FLAGS:
    -h, --help       Prints help information
    -V, --version    Prints version information

SUBCOMMANDS:
    build    Tauri build.
    dev      Tauri dev.
    help     Prints this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)
    info     Shows information about Tauri dependencies
    init     Initializes a Tauri project
    sign     Tauri updates signer.

Warnings:

• Conflicts with @tauri-apps/cli.
• Might have version mismatches with @tauri-apps/cli, because minimal-tauri-cli's version is synced with its rust-based counterpart, see: https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/tree/dev/tooling/cli.rs
• tauri-cli's version 1.0.0-beta.6 is wrapped in 0.0.0-beta.6, because i had to publish it twice due to missing file permissions :(
• Doesn't support tauri icon and tauri deps as long as they are not provided by tauri's rust-based cli.
• There is only a bare minimum of error handling implemented.
• The download function is pretty primitive and might fail on complex network setups.