Blue Fox: Ultimate Desktop Starter Kit
Production-ready Tauri 2 & NestJS boilerplate for high-perfo
Hey Indie Hackers!
I’ve been building desktop apps for a while, and I always hit the same wall: Tauri is amazing for performance, but writing complex enterprise logic in Rust can be a huge time sink if you're coming from the JS/TS world. On the other hand, Electron is just... too heavy for 2026.
I decided to build a "third way" — Blue Fox. It’s a production-ready starter kit that uses a NestJS 11 sidecar inside a Tauri 2 shell.
The Goal: Give developers the speed of the Node.js ecosystem (Auth, TypeORM, Swagger) with the native feel and security of Tauri.
It took me weeks to get the monorepo orchestration (Nx) and sidecar communication right, but it's finally live.
I'd love to hear your thoughts:
Have you tried moving away from Electron recently?
What's your biggest pain point when building for desktop?
Check out the architecture here: https://github.com/skillfulfox-hub/blue-fox-desktop-starter
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