Hearth Desktop

A native desktop client for Hearth chat platform, built with Tauri + Svelte.

Features

• 🚀 Native Performance — Rust-powered, tiny binary (~10MB)
• 🖥️ Cross-Platform — Windows, macOS, Linux
• 🔔 System Notifications — Native OS notifications
• 📌 System Tray — Minimize to tray, quick access
• 🔄 Auto Updates — Built-in update mechanism
• ⌨️ Global Shortcuts — Quick toggle, mute, etc.
• 🎨 Native Window Controls — OS-native titlebar option

Tech Stack

• Framework: Tauri 2.x
• Frontend: Svelte 5 + TypeScript + Tailwind CSS
• Backend: Rust (Tauri core)
• Build: Vite

Development

Prerequisites

• Rust (latest stable)
• Node.js 20+
• pnpm (recommended)

Setup

# Install dependencies
pnpm install

# Run in development mode
pnpm tauri dev

# Build for production
pnpm tauri build

Project Structure

hearth-desktop/
├── src/                    # Svelte frontend
│   ├── lib/
│   │   ├── components/     # UI components
│   │   ├── stores/         # Svelte stores
│   │   └── api/            # API client
│   ├── routes/             # Pages
│   └── app.html
├── src-tauri/              # Rust backend
│   ├── src/
│   │   ├── main.rs         # Entry point
│   │   ├── commands.rs     # Tauri commands
│   │   └── tray.rs         # System tray
│   ├── Cargo.toml
│   └── tauri.conf.json     # Tauri config
├── package.json
└── vite.config.ts

Related

• Hearth — Backend + Web client
• Hearth Mobile — iOS/Android app

License

MIT