How to download specific version of front end ?

[warenbe]

Hi
i have a tauri application that use an external API to grab data.
The API evolve quite often. So when there is a new release of the API, i build a new version of my tauri app.

the problem is, some users use old version of the API.
To know which version i should launch, i created another tauri app, called "launcher".
This specific app will check the current API version used by the user, and will download the associated .exe file from my server.
then the .exe file of my app is started by the launcher.

I would like to know if there is a better way to do this:
My first idea was to have only 1 tauri app (launcher), but this app download a tar.gz of the frontend dist and create a new windows using this dist as content, instead of a full .exe and subprocess.

is it possible?

[FabianLars]

My first idea was to have only 1 tauri app (launcher), but this app download a tar.gz of the frontend dist and create a new windows using this dist as content, instead of a full .exe and subprocess.

Until #5302 lands you could host a localhost server on the rust side or give tauri a custom Asset implementation that serves the files from disk. https://docs.rs/tauri/latest/tauri/struct.Context.html#method.set_assets

[warenbe]

MMhhh interesting... let me read all of that :)

[warenbe]

I also tried this:
host all the assets on webserver, each release in different folder.
then, the app work like this:

• it start, check the api version
• create a new webviewwindow with the URL of the specific release on the server

it works apparently but i find it more difficult to debug: i cannot start the app in debug , change the code, and see the result in realtime...

another option might be to generate a dll file, and load this dll after downloading it ? but i failed to get this working.