tauri-ui

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

One command → shadcn frontend + native shell + desktop-ready defaults.
No templates to maintain — upstream CLIs do the heavy lifting.

Get started

bunx create-tauri-ui@latest

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

After scaffold

cd my-app
bun install
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

🔋 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  ·  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

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

Why tauri-ui

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: one command lands a familiar shadcn + Tauri layout your agent already knows. No custom wrappers, no forked libraries, just the upstream APIs the agent was trained on. No tokens burned debating the stack.

How it works

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.

Manage batteries after scaffold

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

🧑‍🍳 Built with tauri-ui

• 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

License

MIT