Tags → #desktop
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Vanta Desktop: a Tauri wallet that ships its own full node
Most desktop wallets are thin RPC clients that talk to somebody else's node. The Vanta desktop app spawns vantad and the L2 sidecar as Tauri sidecar binaries, owns their PIDs, and adopts orphans on restart. Here is how that came together.
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Tauri 2.x sidecars in anger: the ergonomics paper-cuts I had to fix
externalBin wants a target-triple suffix nobody documents loudly enough. The dev resolver walks up parents. Startup must be sequenced. The setup-sidecars.sh + resolve_binary() story for shipping a wallet that runs its own node.