The extraction left update.rs's tests reaching for rusqlite and uuid directly to build a Db — crates that now belong to the core alone, so clippy failed on unresolved imports. The Windows job had already compiled the whole installer, so this was only ever the test module. Adding rusqlite as a dev-dependency of the desktop crate would have fixed it and quietly undone part of the point: the desktop is not supposed to know what the store is made of. So the core exposes open_in_memory() instead, which is what the caller actually wanted, and the Android bindings will want the same thing when they get tests. uuid went the same way. It was generating unique scratch-directory names, which a process id plus a counter does without a dependency — process id separates concurrent cargo test runs, the counter separates tests within a run. The comment right above it already said nothing there was worth a new dependency. Verified the boundary holds in both directions afterwards: the desktop crate references none of rusqlite/uuid/chrono/reqwest/sha2, and the core references no tauri. 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).