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The web hosting costs basically nothing. Most of the cost comes from the database.
I was surprised by the cost of Vercel in that blog post too, which is why I dislike all kinds of serverless/lambda/managed services. For me, having a dozen people subscribing to $1-$2/month sponsorship on GitHub Sponsors is enough to cover all the costs. Even if no one donates, I’d still have no trouble keeping the project running on my own.
I feel like this article challenges my patience and attention too much, there is really no need to focus on the pros of upgrading here. We reader just want to know how they managed to upgrade at that large scale, challenges they faced and how the solved them. Not to mention any sane tech writers that value their time wouldn't write this much.
One of the example is audio playback. Chromium and in turn Edge WebView2 have great support, but make it work in Webkit2gtk is a big pain in the *s. I then decided to switch the audio playback feature to Rust side (using Kira and Symphonia) instead.
Having Chromium bundled eliminates all the pain about inconsistency between webview engines, and using Rust means we don't have to pay for the NodeJS size in our app bundle (plus better performance).
For Tauri, I think something like Servo will fit well as bundled browser engine. Hopefully some day it will happen.
However I faced some other new frustration, such as when trying to make a dynamic nested form (similar to cocoon gem) but only with hotwire stack (turbo frame/stream). It is also hard to think of each hotwire controller as a component, you might face some problems when trying to do some nesting.
I think Hotwire will be a perfect fit if you want a traditional websites with a few dynamic, interactive features. If your website is too much app-like, you should consider switching the frontend part to SPA entirely.
Source: I'm developer of https://github.com/tranxuanthang/lrcget
> By being built on Rust, Tauri is able to take advantage of the memory, thread, and type-safety offered by Rust. Apps built on Tauri can automatically get those benefits even without needing to be developed by Rust experts.
How much of this is mitigated by being web-API-based?
Each Electron app has both Chromium and NodeJS bundled. Tauri only use platform-specific webviews, and Rust is a compiled language with no GC and no runtime.
It's great to have something like Slum. It makes accessing these libraries much easier and helps users check if a site is down for everyone or just for them. Plus, having the up-to-date links provided is super helpful!