⚡ Scaffold Tauri desktop apps with shadcn/ui and desktop-ready defaults.
Choose Vite, Next.js, React Router, Astro, or TanStack Start.
Upstream CLIs build the foundation; tauri-ui adds the native shell and optional batteries.
bunx create-tauri-ui@latestEach release includes a demo build showing the expected output — available in Releases.
cd my-app
bun run tauri dev- swap icons:
bunx tauri icon ./app-icon.png - add shadcn components:
bunx shadcn@latest add dialog sonner - add tauri plugins:
bun run tauri add store(plugin list) - batteries live in
src/components/(debug-panel, external-link-guard, theme-provider) - tweak window defaults in
src-tauri/tauri.conf.json - CLI flags + opt-outs → packages/create-tauri-ui
👩💻 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
invokeexample - smaller binary output (~65% smaller binary in our test)
- GitHub Actions release workflow
🛠 Debug Panel · Cmd / Ctrl + D
- inspects app state, route, window, tracked invokes, runtime events, plugin logs, and system paths
- live host diagnostics: theme & a11y, locale, display, input, network
- hover any field for the source snippet with a web / tauri origin chip — click to copy
- dev-only, zero production impact — dockable and remembers its layout
🧱 Upstream UI
shadcnfrontend generated via official CLI- no forks, always up to date
- adapters for
vite,next,react-router,astro,start
A fresh Tauri app feels like a wrapped website. Window state, startup flash, link routing, overscroll, native selection: chores you hit on every project.
tauri-ui handles them by default and stays close to upstream shadcn and create-tauri-app. Nothing forks, nothing drifts from the docs.
🦾 Better with AI coding agents: familiar shadcn + Tauri structure, built on upstream APIs without custom wrappers or forks.
cli 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.
Run inside an existing tauri-ui project to add, update, or remove batteries without re-scaffolding:
Template auto-detected (no manifest file written to your repo), updates are idempotent; commit first and review the diff.
bunx create-tauri-ui@latest list # show install status
bunx create-tauri-ui@latest update debug-panel # pull the latest template
bunx create-tauri-ui@latest add workflow # add the release workflow later
bunx create-tauri-ui@latest remove workflow- speedbox — internet and DNS speed test desktop app.
Built something with
tauri-ui? Open a PR adding it to this list — one line with a link and a short description.
📖 CLI reference and full options → packages/create-tauri-ui
MIT