Cross-platform Reddit client — Tauri, Rust and Vue

Context

Reddit is a very popular community platform for browsing, sharing and commenting on content across thousands of communities called subreddits. The aim of this project was to develop a full Reddit client capable of replicating the official app experience while exploring modern cross-platform application architectures.

This project was carried out as part of the computer engineering curriculum at Epitech. It involves building a functional Reddit client based on the official Reddit API that can run on multiple platforms from a single codebase.

Problem

Developing applications for multiple platforms (desktop, mobile, web) often requires separate codebases, which increases development and maintenance complexity.

Traditional frameworks like Electron make it possible to build desktop apps with web technologies, but often produce heavy, poorly optimized executables.

The challenge of this project was therefore to design a performant Reddit client that could run on multiple platforms while remaining lightweight and secure.

Solution

The application uses Tauri to create a lightweight Rust-based desktop executable while keeping a user interface built with Vue.js.

Tauri makes it possible to build performant cross-platform applications with much lighter executables than those produced by solutions like Electron.

The user interface faithfully replicates the Reddit browsing experience and relies on Reddit's official APIs (REST and GraphQL) to fetch data and interact with the platform.

To extend the application to mobile, the project also uses Capacitor, allowing the same codebase to be reused.

Key features

• authentication via Reddit OAuth
• feed and subreddit navigation
• comment browsing
• post creation
• voting (upvote / downvote)
• content and community search
• user profile management
• interface matching the official Reddit experience.

The application runs on desktop (Windows, macOS) and can also be adapted for mobile thanks to the hybrid architecture.

Results

This project demonstrates the possibility of developing a full cross-platform application from a single codebase by combining:

• Rust and Tauri for performant desktop applications
• Vue.js for the user interface
• Capacitor for extending to mobile.

It provides an interesting testing ground for OAuth authentication, external API integration and modern hybrid application architecture.