"Embed" website to application

[stark sedge]

How can I not use a frontend and "embed" an existing website using Tauri instead?

[coral spear]

Simply specify a website in the windows "url" config

Using an external site however comes with limitations, most of which can be circumvented but at the cost of security

[stark sedge]

I have the following in my main.rs:

// Prevents additional console window on Windows in release, DO NOT REMOVE!!
#![cfg_attr(not(debug_assertions), windows_subsystem = "windows")]

fn main() {
    tauri::Builder::default()
        .run(tauri::generate_context!())
        .expect("error while running application");
}

[coral spear]

In tauri.conf.json you have the windows: [] config, right? Add url: "https://my-site.com" to one of the windows in there

[stark sedge]

What should be the devPath, distDir, etc?

Can I just remove build block entirely?

[coral spear]

It should be whatever URL your development server is. Don't think you can remove it, but you can at least set all the stuff in there to be blank I suppose

[stark sedge]

"devPath" cannot be empty

error: proc macro panicked
  --> src/main.rs:13:14
   |
13 |         .run(tauri::generate_context!())
   |              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
   |
   = help: message: The `devPath` configuration cannot be empty

error: could not compile `taurus` (bin "taurus") due to previous error

[coral spear]

Then set it to your remote url

[stark sedge]

Just setting it to the URL works 😮

I don't even need to set windows