This is a unit converter desktop application made with Tauri. It uses a rust backend with a SolidJS frontend.
For converting units, it converts the "from" unit to a base unit, then converts that number to the "to" unit.
Tauri is a toolkit used to build cross-platform desktop applications. It is a similar idea to Electron, but replaces the NodeJS backend with rust, and the chromium frontend with WebView.
Learn more about Tauri here
This is meant to be a simple Tauri application. It is not good example code for routing, deeply nested components, etc.
When starting the app, you may select a unit type from the sidebar. The default is distance. Then, select a unit to convert to and from in the dropdown menus. Type the value into the textbox, and it will be converted on the fly and printed below the textbox. If you change one of the dropdowns, the conversion will be updated.
There may be some minor conversion errors due to the base unit conversions. For example, 1 mile is said to be about ~5279.98688 feet, when it is actually 5280 feet.
The windows executable binary can be found in the releases window of this github repository.
You will likely have to install some things for building to work.
Build instructions will vary per platform
Here is the official documentation on building
You will need to install the packages before you can build. I use npm, so I run npm install
To run the app in development mode, use npm run tauri dev OR yarn tauri dev OR pnpm tauri dev OR cargo tauri dev
Running it in development mode also allows you to open up the browser console. (This is where console.log() messages will appear).
npm run tauri build OR yarn tauri build OR pnpm tauri build OR cargo tauri build
The executable is in src-tauri/target/release (at least for Windows).