Migrate from Tauri to CapacitorJS #1

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antman merged 6 commits from capacitorjs-spike into main

2026-07-12 04:18:54 +00:00

antman commented

2026-07-12 04:15:09 +00:00

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Motivation

The first use case for a KtC mobile app is alerting the user when their home server is down. This requires a background task that will make a http request to the server and dispatch a local notification if the server response is non-ok.

Tauri does not have official support for background tasks, and the only community plugin providing background tasks was AI generated and nonfunctional. It's documentation generally had gaps regarding mobile usage, as it's mainly a desktop application framework.

Solution

CapacitorJS provides an official background runner, as well as notifications, preferences, etc. This framework is mobile only, so mobile support and documentation is excellent.

Note: Background runner is only active on physical iOS devices — it does not run on a simulator.

Follow up

Server address is currently hardcoded. Next PR needs to set the server address via preferences and read it in the background worker using CapacitorKV

## Motivation The first use case for a KtC mobile app is alerting the user when their home server is down. This requires a background task that will make a http request to the server and dispatch a local notification if the server response is non-ok. Tauri does not have official support for background tasks, and the only community plugin providing background tasks was AI generated and nonfunctional. It's documentation generally had gaps regarding mobile usage, as it's mainly a desktop application framework. ## Solution CapacitorJS provides an official background runner, as well as notifications, preferences, etc. This framework is mobile only, so mobile support and documentation is excellent. Note: Background runner is only active on physical iOS devices — it does not run on a simulator. ## Follow up Server address is currently hardcoded. Next PR needs to set the server address via [preferences](https://capacitorjs.com/docs/apis/preferences) and read it in the background worker using [CapacitorKV](https://capacitorjs.com/docs/apis/background-runner#capacitorkv)

antman added 6 commits

2026-07-12 04:15:09 +00:00