view

view is a Tauri 2 desktop workbench for browsing projects, inspecting Git history, reviewing diffs, editing files, and running an embedded terminal from one dense desktop UI.

It is built for day-to-day repository work rather than marketing-style chrome: fast navigation, multi-panel workflows, and native-feeling resize and drag interactions.

Highlights

• Rail-based workspace layout with draggable tool icons on the left and right rails
• File tree, Git, commit, and terminal panels that can be moved between rail slots
• Side-by-side workflow with editor or diff content kept in the center
• CodeMirror-based text editor with search, replace, and inline Git blame
• Git history and reflog views, including backend-powered filtering
• Commit inspection, staging, restore, and reset-to-reflog flows
• Embedded terminal powered by alacritty_terminal
• Multi-project switching with persisted workbench layout and panel sizes
• Works for regular folders too; Git-specific panels activate when the selected folder is inside a Git repository

Stack

• Frontend: React 19 + Vite + TypeScript
• Desktop shell: Tauri 2
• Backend: Rust commands in src-tauri/src/lib.rs
• Data/query layer: TanStack Query
• Editor: CodeMirror 6
• Diff renderer: @pierre/diffs
• Tree renderer: @pierre/trees

Development

Requirements

• Bun 1.3+
• Rust stable
• Tauri 2 prerequisites for your platform

Linux dev builds also need the GTK/WebKit dependencies used in CI:

sudo apt-get install -y \
  libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev \
  libappindicator3-dev \
  librsvg2-dev \
  patchelf \
  libssl-dev \
  libgtk-3-dev \
  libfuse2

Install

bun install

Common commands

# Frontend only
bun run dev

# Desktop app in development
bun run tauri:dev

# Typecheck + production frontend build
bun run build

# Rust tests
cd src-tauri && cargo test

# Build desktop release
bun run tauri:build

# Build and run the Linux release binary
just run-release

Repository layout

src/                     React UI, hooks, CodeMirror integration, settings
src/components/          App surfaces and workbench panels
src/components/editor/   File preview and editor-related UI
src/components/workbench/Rail slot stacks and Git panel composition
src/hooks/               Query and UI state hooks
src/lib/                 Tauri API wrappers, layout, parsing, transforms
src-tauri/src/           Rust commands, Git operations, terminal backend
.github/workflows/       CI build and release automation

CI

GitHub Actions builds Linux and Windows artifacts from .github/workflows/build.yml.

• Rust dependencies and target output are cached with swatinem/rust-cache@v2
• Bun package downloads are cached via actions/cache@v4
• Frontend dependencies are installed with bun install --frozen-lockfile

Notes

• src/App.tsx is currently an orchestration-heavy shell; new feature logic is generally better extracted into src/components/, src/hooks/, or src/lib/
• Tauri command wrappers belong in src/lib/api.ts rather than React components calling invoke directly
• Path-sensitive Git and file operations are validated on the Rust side

License

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