Building Desktop Apps with ElixirKit and Tauri

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Livebook Desktop is rebuilt with ElixirKit+Tauri: a single Rust Tauri binary that spawns an Elixir release, links via pub/sub over TCP, and embeds a Phoenix LiveView web UI in the Tauri webview. Demos use single-file Rust and Elixir scripts to start a TCP pubsub, exchange messages, and bundle a release into the app. Build, code signing, and automatic updates run via Tauri’s tooling and GitHub Actions, and the example apps and ElixirKit packages are on GitHub/Hex and work across macOS, Windows, and Linux.

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1. 0:00Livebook Desktop intro
2. 2:20Cross-platform GUI challenges
3. 5:11Native GUI with ElixirKit
4. 8:27Custom native limits
5. 9:29Why Tauri worked
6. 10:33ElixirKit + Rust demo
7. 14:52Tauri single-file Elixir
8. 16:58Tauri build & distribute
9. 18:22Tauri plugins & thoughts

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