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Consider using Tauri instead of Electron #2

@motin

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@motin

As mentioned in open-webui/open-webui#8262 (comment), I have packaged Open WebUI using Electron and found it rather clunky to work with and leading to large binaries. Also referenced in the comment is @reecelikesramen's https://github.com/reecelikesramen/open-webui-desktop which is a Tauri-packaging of Open WebUI which demonstrably is able to bundle the entire Open WebUI frontend in a mere 14.2mb binary. Using Tauri also may allow this repo to host both desktop and mobile apps, and we know at least two community members that have offered to contribute Tauri-packaging (Reece and me :)) to Open WebUI.

There are of course good things with Electron as well (and Ollama uses it for their Mac app for instance), but given that now (very early) in the project is the time to decide the framework for packaging, it'd be great to hear how you arrived to the choice of Electron, and if that choice is open to reconsideration?

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