The term comes from cars, but is all about perfecting your machine down to a grain of rice.
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So you want to create a quick native dashboard. You know enough web dev to be dangerous, and now you're hoping to create something useful that isn't stuck in one of your browser tabs.
Here I'll touch on the path I took through Electron that eventually lead to Tauri, then include links to the way I'm currently using Tauri in Clawe.