Is there a way to prevent multiple instances?

[ozgunozerk]

Is there a native way to enforce a single instance, or prevent multiple instances for the desktop tauri app?

[FabianLars]

Not yet (work on it won't start before v1 stable is released).

Notable community experiments:
https://gitlab.com/ioneyed/tauri-example-singleinstance
https://gitlab.com/ioneyed/tauri-plugin-highlander
Furthermore you can find discussions around this on our discord.

[ankitpatial]

Is there any progress on it as tauri is already in v1 from last few months?

[FabianLars]

For windows and linux there's this https://github.com/amrbashir/tauri-plugin-single-instance/. amr is a team member, so this is somewhat official.
I'm not a macos user, but isn't single-instance the default there? If so this plugin may be enough for most use cases.

[ankitpatial]

@FabianLars thank you for quick reply. I guess you are right about mac(I will confirm it)

[TFLXX]

@FabianLars thank you for quick reply. I guess you are right about mac(I will confirm it)

Can you confirm it? 🙂

[LordNayan]

@TFLXX I can confirm that mac has single instance by default

[hugoattal]

If anyone looking for this, here's the official plugin: https://github.com/tauri-apps/plugins-workspace/tree/v1/plugins/single-instance

[Karuma303]

Well, actually I just searched for it this afternoon and also found the official plugin. So this topic seems to be very hot! :)