Announcement: OxideDock Rust + Vue 3 desktop starter built on Tauri v2

Robert Fridzema — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 09:18:29 +0000

I built a Tauri v2 + Vue 3 desktop starter so you don't have to wire up the boring stuff. I got tired of setting up the same thing every time I wanted to build a desktop app. Routing, state management, testing, linting, CI/CD, release pipelines — it's always the same dance before you can write a single line of actual app code. By the time everything worked together, I'd lost interest in the actual app i was aiming to build.

So I put together https://github.com/fridzema/oxide-dock
It's a extensive starter template that gives you:

Tauri v2 + Vue 3 + TypeScript + Tailwind CSS v4
Vitest and Playwright already configured (100% coverage)
Rust tests run on Linux, macOS, and Windows in parallel
ESLint, Prettier, Oxlint, Clippy, Rustfmt — all wired up with pre-commit hooks
GitHub Actions CI that lints, tests, and builds on all three platforms
Daily security audits on both Rust and JS dependencies via cargo-audit and bun audit
Pre-commit hooks via Lefthook so bad code doesn't reach the repo
Push a version tag and you get .dmg, .deb, .AppImage, .msi, and .exe automatically
make bootstrap renames the entire project to your app name in one command
Small app footprint (6,9MB)
And many more...

Run make setup && make dev and you're building your actual app.

I posted this on r/vuejs a few days ago and it's been sitting at #1 on the subreddit since then, which honestly caught me off guard. The feedback there helped me tighten up a few things, and a couple of feature ideas from the comments are already on my list.

It's MIT licensed. Fork it, gut it, make it yours. If you've been meaning to try Tauri but kept putting it off because of the setup overhead, this might save you a weekend(s).

Would love to hear what you'd add or change.

DEV Community: Robert Fridzema

Announcement: OxideDock Rust + Vue 3 desktop starter built on Tauri v2