Desktop application

This is the main GitButler application frontend code. This has been built using Svelte, sweat and beers.

Running the app on a browser (with but-server)

The application can be run using the dev server on a browser. This has to then access the rust end through the but-server. The but-server provides the same API surface as the one provided by conventional Tauri.

Steps

1. Run the but-server

Execute the following command on your terminal \

bash

cargo run -p but-server

This should start the server on th default port 6978

2. Run the FE dev server

Execute the following command on another terminal, concurrently

bash

pnpm dev:desktop-http

This packages the local workspace dependencies, builds the web target, points it to the but-server on http://localhost:6978 and serves it under the default address http://localhost:1420/

If you run the desktop package's dev script directly, make sure the local package outputs exist first:

bash

pnpm turbo run package --filter=...@gitbutler/desktop

3. Go to the browser

Open Chrome (let's not kid ourselves) and got to http://localhost:1420 and enjoy

Development

Auto-build the server on Rust changes

bash

watchexec -w crates -r -- cargo run -p but-server