coven 🧙✨🔮

An occult chat app using Cabal

Uses the cable.rs implementation of the new Cable protocol.

For now is a desktop app, but with the magic of Dioxus may also become a mobile app, a web app, and a terminal app.

Status: Pre-Alpha (Work in progress, expect changes)

Usage

(With Rust and Node.js both installed)

Clone, build, and run coven:

git clone [email protected]:ahdinosaur/coven.git
cd coven
npm install
npm run tailwind
cargo build --release
./target/release/coven

Develop

Pre-requisites

https://beta.tauri.app/guides/prerequisites/

Linux

sudo apt update
sudo apt install libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev \
  build-essential \
  curl \
  wget \
  file \
  libssl-dev \
  libgtk-3-dev \
  libayatana-appindicator3-dev \
  librsvg2-dev

Run

with just installed:

just dev

(If that doesn't work, fallback to cargo run.)

TODO

features

from nikolaiwarner/react-cabal#1

at the moment we build ALL of tailwind and daisyui, which means the output CSS file is like 11 MB. (although this does GZIP very well.)

tailwind cli expects to be given files that it will search for tailwind classes, to only output what's needed.

how to solve this:

[ ] ~~server-side render pages as HTML and parse that~~ (this won't work because pages are dynamic, not everything will be rendered with static props)
[ ] ~~expand class! macros as Rust and parse that~~ (this won't work because class! expands to static string variables, not the raw strings)
[ ] use raw strings for Tailwind classes in Rust files and parse that
[ ] wait until Dioxus has a first class solution with https://github.com/DioxusLabs/dioxus/pull/1369