Learn Rust for building webapps?

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@Jonny3000

So your app would maybe have to be a standalone application pulling in and storing data on the Safe Network. Am I thinking about this in the right way?

Welcome to the forum!

I think at least 3 ways of doing Apps are possible. When people run SAFE on their system (just like JAVA) you should be able to build a Windows program (desktop-link that point to a .exe-file etc.) It can make use of the SAFE-API and write and read to the virtual disk that gets mounted by the SAFE-software.

Another option is to run SAFE and have a plugin for Firefox. That’s where you can browse SAFE-sites and these can be made as an App as well. Just like Chrome has it’s own app-store. So people don’t really feel the difference between an App or a website in this option.

Another way is using the SAFE App Launcher. This is different from a browser or a native (.exe) file. This will probably use JAVA-code. A peek inside can be found here:

SAFE App Launcher - Introduction

I get what you’re saying Mark, however it doesn’t have to be that complicated(I mean the find and open the App part after logging in to launcher). I’d call that bad UX myself too but we don’t have to start bundling stuff in the main app to prevent it either. Maybe this image could help. This isn’t from the latest iteration, just for a rough idea: Consider that’s what you see when you login. So you don’t leave the App to launch “Getty Images”(It’s one of the app in the image). Now the argum…

So, a lot of different options.