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Android becomes a native Kotlin client over this same code (Scribe note 2730), so
the local store and sync engine stop being modules of the desktop app and become
`thoughtsync-core`, a crate with no UI framework in it at all.
This is a move, not a rewrite, and the measurement is why: every file in local/
and sync/ already carried ZERO Tauri references — 4,980 of 6,372 lines. The
coupling was 473 lines of command shim, which stays behind in the desktop crate
as src/commands/. Kept as git renames so history follows the files.
The desktop imports them under their old names (`use thoughtsync_core::{local,
sync}`) so every call site reads exactly as before. What moved is where they
live, not what they are.
Two things a workspace changes that are easy to miss, both caught before pushing:
[profile.release] now lives at the workspace ROOT. Cargo silently ignores
profiles declared by a non-root member — leaving it in the desktop crate would
have dropped lto/strip/opt-level from every release build with only a warning.
And a workspace shares ONE target dir, so the bundles moved from
desktop/src-tauri/target to target/. Thirteen references across publish-release,
debundle-graphics, verify.sh, package-prebuilt and the workflow now point there.
Pinning target-dir back would have been the smaller diff, but the Android lane
also produces Rust artifacts and they do not belong under desktop/.
Also retires the Tauri Android lane in the same push rather than leaving a path
that is being replaced: gen/android, android.yml and docs/android-dev.md are
gone, the mobile_entry_point attribute with them, and the lib drops to rlib —
staticlib/cdylib existed for Tauri mobile, and the .so Android loads will be
built from the core crate instead. Rule 22, no parallel path.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
ThoughtSync desktop (Tauri v2)
Local-first desktop client. The window loads the shared Vue 3 frontend from
../frontend; the Rust core (src-tauri) owns the on-device store and the opt-in
sync engine (built out across the M10 milestone). Works fully offline; optionally
syncs to a self-hosted ThoughtSync server.
Layout
desktop/
src-tauri/
Cargo.toml
build.rs
tauri.conf.json # frontendDist -> ../../frontend/dist, devUrl :5173
capabilities/default.json
src/
main.rs # thin shim -> lib::run()
lib.rs # tauri::Builder entry point
The Vue frontend is the sibling ../frontend package, shared with the web
build. On desktop it is backed by a local data source via
frontend/src/adapters/ (M10.3) instead of the server REST API. frontend and
src-tauri are siblings, not nested, so the beforeDev/beforeBuild
commands cd "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/frontend" to resolve regardless of
the CLI's working directory.
Prerequisites
The toolchain (Rust + Node + WebKitGTK 4.1 + tauri-cli) is provided by the
ci-tauri CI image. For local dev: install Rust + Node, cargo install tauri-cli,
and the Tauri v2 Linux system deps — see CI-tauri/Dockerfile in the CI-runner
repo for the exact apt list (libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev, libgtk-3-dev, librsvg2-dev,
libayatana-appindicator3-dev, libxdo-dev, patchelf, ...).
Dev
cd desktop/src-tauri && cargo tauri dev
beforeDevCommand starts the Vite dev server (port 5173) in ../frontend.
Build (Linux)
cargo tauri icon "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/frontend/public/icon.svg"
cd desktop/src-tauri && cargo tauri build # -> .deb + .AppImage
App icons are generated from the frontend's icon.svg via cargo tauri icon
(not committed; CI does this before cargo tauri build). Bundle targets: deb,
appimage (Linux-first; Windows/macOS later, no code changes expected).
Status
Scaffold (M10.2): boots the shared Vue UI in a native window. Until the local data
adapter lands (M10.3 + M10.5) the app has no server configured, so it shows the
login screen without a working backend — full offline functionality arrives with
the local SQLite store (M10.4) + adapters/local.ts (M10.5).