README.md

Canister file manager native app

This native application is created with Tauri + React + Typescript + Rust.

Note that this repo development is (temporary) dropped in favour of a web hosted file manager.

This project was the start attempt to create a user facing interface to interact with the file manager logic.

The initial reasoning for doing a native application was to have direct access to the filesystem and queueing uploads so it was possible to sync folders / be able to stop and start the process.

The main difference between this native application compared to the web application;

###Native

• file system, canister communication logic is handled in Rust
• Identities from the file system are used

###Web

• file system, canister communication logic is handled in Typescript
• Identities from internet identity are used

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local deployment

To setup the demo application you need to deploy the backend canister.

backend

• navigate to the backend folder with a CLI
• run dfx start --clean --background
• run dfx deploy --no-wallet
• Take note of the canisterId that is used

native app

• navigate to the native app folder with a CLI / open in code editor
• run npm install
• Change the canisterId and host accordingly in src/src-tauri/src/logic/canister_methods.rs
• start the local server npm run tauri dev
• a popup with the app should open up