A Chromium bundle costs you 150MB before your app does anything. Our Tauri development services skip that tax entirely — Rust backend for memory safety, your existing React, Vue, or Svelte frontend untouched, the OS's own WebView instead of a second browser hiding inside the install. The apps we ship land under 10MB and idle around 50MB, not 300.
Why Entalogics for Tauri
Small and secure is Tauri's pitch. It only holds if someone actually built it that way — the Tauri apps we audit usually have bloated Rust commands, unscoped permissions, and WebView bugs nobody caught before shipping.
A bare Tauri app is under 3MB. Add fonts, assets, and a few careless crates and it creeps to 40MB without anyone noticing. We watch it with `cargo bloat` from the first commit, not the release candidate.
File access, database calls, encryption, model inference — none of that belongs in TypeScript. The frontend invokes a typed command and renders whatever comes back. Nothing else touches the filesystem directly.
Tauri 2.0's capability model only protects you if it's configured — every command, every plugin, every path explicitly scoped. Leave it wide open and the tiny attack surface Tauri promised disappears.
`tauri-specta` or hand-written bindings generate TypeScript types straight from Rust. Change a command's shape and the frontend won't compile — that's the whole point of typed IPC.
When Tauri, when not
It's the lightest way to ship a cross-platform desktop app — and it renders through whatever WebView the OS already has, which means Chrome-tested CSS can quietly break in WebKit. We'll say so on the first call if that trade-off doesn't suit your product.
PICK TAURI WHEN
PICK ELECTRON WHEN
WE SAY NO WHEN
What we build with Tauri
Eight ways this work shows up for real clients. Each one ships signed, auto-updating, and small enough that IT deployment doesn't flinch.
A new desktop product built Rust-first from the architecture up — typed commands, scoped permissions, and a frontend that stays dumb by design.
Code editors, database GUIs, API clients — the apps engineers live in all day, where a 1-second cold start and 40MB of idle memory are the actual bar.
Local inference through ONNX Runtime in Rust, on-device embeddings, an assistant that never phones home. Memory goes to the model, not the framework running it.
Single-URL lockdown, no escape hatches, crash recovery built in. The terminal in a retail store or hospital lobby that has to survive being touched by strangers all day.
Wallet logic and RPC management sitting in the Rust core, not exposed to the WebView. Hardware-key support wired in where the threat model calls for it.
The Node.js backend becomes Rust commands, IPC gets rebuilt typed from scratch, and the 150MB install shrinks toward 10 — without freezing your release schedule to do it.
One Rust core, five platforms. Tauri 2.0 ships the same backend to iOS and Android alongside Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Crate updates, security patches, and permission audits on a schedule — so the app that shipped lean doesn't quietly drift six months later.
The playbook
Patterns from production Tauri apps — not what `cargo create-tauri-app` gives you on day one.
P01
TypeScript types generated straight from Rust command signatures. A backend change that breaks a contract fails the build, not a user's session.
P02
Every command, plugin, and file path explicitly granted. Nothing is reachable by default — security by denial, not by good intentions.
P03
Database, filesystem, networking, encryption all live in Rust. The frontend renders and invokes. A clean boundary that's easy to test on both sides.
P04
`cargo bloat` and `cargo tree` catch a bloated crate before it ships, keeping production builds under 10MB — not just the hello-world demo.
P05
WebKit, WebView2, and WebKitGTK each render slightly differently. We test on all three in CI instead of finding out from a support ticket.
P06
JSON manifests signed, delta updates where they apply, rollback on failure. No electron-updater dependency carried over out of habit.
Signature case
A database GUI for PostgreSQL — the team had evaluated Electron but the 180MB bundle and 300MB idle memory were unacceptable for a tool that competes with native apps like TablePlus. Built on Tauri 2 with Rust backend for query execution and React frontend in 10 weeks. 8MB installer. 42MB idle. Users can't tell it's not native.
Before
180MB bundle · 300MB idle · 4.2s cold start · Chromium CVE surface (Electron prototype)
After
8MB bundle · 42MB idle · 0.9s cold start · capability-scoped, audited (Tauri 2 production)
Engagement shape
Feature by feature. Signed test builds go out from week two, not saved for one big release.
Rust architecture review, permission scoping check, WebView compatibility pass, binary size audit. A ranked plan with real numbers, not a list of concerns.
Tauri 2 baseline, Rust commands wired, typed IPC, auto-updater configured, one production window shipped end-to-end. Signed build across all three platforms.
Command by command, behind flags. Signed beta releases going out weekly.
Signed production release, auto-update verified working. Runbook handed over, or we stay on for Tauri and Rust maintenance.
Stack
Our default Tauri development stack — picked for production, not Rust playground experiments.
Engagement
No hourly billing for thinking time. Fixed quote or a transparent monthly rate.
Fixed scope, fixed price, senior-only team. RFC to signed release across all platforms, typically 8-14 weeks.
FIXED SCOPE
Senior Rust and frontend engineers in your Slack and your standups. Pause, resize, or exit with 30 days' notice.
PER ENGINEER
A standing partner for product teams shipping desktop and mobile from one Rust core — architecture, migration, Rust mentoring, hiring help.
PROCUREMENT-FRIENDLY
Founder-direct
Thirty minutes with the founder — a senior Tauri developer, the relevant playbook, and an honest read on whether Tauri or Electron actually fits what you're building.
