Tauri Modern Desktop App Starter Kit

Minimal Tauri v2 + React + shadcn desktop app starter with tray and autostart

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Best for: Developers who want a minimal, easy-to-customize Tauri v2 desktop app starter with tray icon and autostart already wired.
Skip if: You need a widely-adopted, actively-maintained starter with a real community - this is a small hobby project with no GitHub stars yet.

This is a free, MIT-licensed starter template for building desktop apps with Tauri v2, React and Vite. It comes with a custom titlebar, shadcn-based VS Code-like color styling, a system tray icon with minimize-to-tray, OS autostart toggling, and native notification support, aimed at developers who want a lightweight, easy-to-customize base rather than a heavyweight framework.

Pros

Simple, minimal project structure that's easy to understand and customize
Practical desktop-specific niceties included: system tray, minimize-to-tray, OS autostart, custom titlebar
Modern stack - Tauri v2, React, Vite, shadcn/ui

Cons

Very small, unproven project with zero GitHub stars and no community validation
Hasn't been updated in several months as of this review
No auth, backend, or app-level scaffolding - purely a desktop shell starting point