tauri-ui

⚡ The fastest way to build a Tauri desktop app with shadcn/ui.

One command → shadcn frontend + native shell + desktop-ready defaults.
No template to maintenance.

Get started

bunx create-tauri-ui@latest

Each release includes a demo build showing the expected output — available in Releases.

🔋 Batteries Included

👩‍💻 Desktop defaults

• no startup flash (hidden until first paint)
• external links open in system browser
• no overscroll / rubber-band scrolling
• desktop-style selection behavior
• sensible default window size and position

➕ Extras (optional)

• starter dashboard (dashboard-01)
• Rust invoke example
• smaller binary output (~65% smaller binary in our test)
• GitHub Actions release workflow

🛠 Debug Panel

• built-in debug panel for inspecting app state, invokes, events, logs, and system paths
• dev-only, zero production impact
• dockable and remembers its layout

🧱 Upstream UI

• shadcn frontend generated via official CLI
• no forks, always up to date
• adapters for vite, next, react-router, astro, start

Why tauri-ui

A Tauri app isn’t desktop-ready by default.

You still need to fix window behavior, startup flash, links, scrolling, and selection otherwise it feels like a wrapped website.

tauri-ui handles this out of the box, while staying close to upstream.

How it works

prompts
  → official shadcn/ui init
  → official create-tauri-app setup
  → combine frontend + native shell
  → apply desktop-ready defaults
  → add optional batteries

No full local templates. Just a small asset and patch surface on top of the upstream CLIs.

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📖 CLI reference and full options → packages/create-tauri-ui

License

MIT