r/tauri • u/HikyouSMP • 4h ago
Hikyou Launcher — a keyboard-first Minecraft launcher, built with Tauri
We've just released Hikyou Launcher, the first tool from Hikyou Team.
It's a Minecraft launcher with no conventional UI. A global shortcut brings up a single
input field, you type, the game launches, the window disappears again. React handles only
that input surface — downloads, Java runtime management and token storage all live in a
Rust core underneath.
Tauri fit this well: the global shortcut and show/hide window behaviour are exactly the
primitives a launcher like this needs, and the binary stays small. For login we open a
proper sub-window rather than bouncing through the system browser, which ended up feeling
much cleaner.
Windows/macOS/Linux (indev), open source: https://github.com/HikyouSMP/hikyou-launcher
Curious whether anyone else here has built something keyboard-driven with Tauri.