Nitrolaunch - Open source Minecraft launcher

[frozen lake]

Using Tauri, I was able to build a desktop app for my Minecraft launcher which already had a command-line interface. Because my code was already in Rust, Tauri made it really easy to provide both interfaces and keep my launcher fast and responsive.

Launcher Features:

• Plugin System: Using IPC, you can install plugins for the launcher that extend it with new features
• Packages: Download and install mods and more from sites like Modrinth
• Client and server support: Can install and launch both!

Technology Used:

• Tauri v1 (im gonna update eventually 😆)
• SolidJS and Solid Router
• All components and their CSS styles were made by hand

Spent a couple years working on this, just thought i'd show it off!

https://github.com/Nitrolaunch/nitrolaunch

[sage shadow]

No way there are no other comments or at least reactions. Your plugin system is just mind-blowing, definitely giving this launcher a try

Although I can't quite understand this: if plugins can use a rust code, how is javascript going to be able to invoke functions from that rust code?

AFAIK tauri needs to do bindings at buildtime to make JS <-> Rust code communication work

[sage shadow]

but your plugin system is working purely at runtime

[frozen lake]

thank you so much!

[frozen lake]

it doesn’t go through tauri. it works similar to tauri though. the rust code in the backend communicates with a plugin process by sending json back and forth through stdio streams