uan-iel/stellaris-writing

Stellaris Writing is a local first desktop writing check-in app, built with React, Vite, and Tauri. The README is mostly about installing and building the app rather than explaining what a writing check-in actually involves day to day, so beyond the name and the tech stack, the exact features are not described in detail. On macOS, the quickest way to try it is npm install followed by npm run desktop, which opens the app as a native desktop window without needing a browser. There is also a setup script for creating a proper desktop launcher on macOS, which will use an already installed copy of the app in the Applications folder if one exists, and only falls back to running from source code for developers who need that. To produce a standalone installable app, npm run desktop:build creates a packaged macOS build. This packaged version is meant for sharing with people who should not have to run the project from source, since anyone who installs it does not need Node.js, npm, Rust, or Vite on their own machine. Windows and macOS installers are also built automatically through a GitHub Actions workflow whenever a version tag is pushed or the workflow is run manually. The Windows installer sets up the app for the current user, adds desktop and Start Menu shortcuts, and bundles an offline WebView2 installer so end users do not need to install any development tools themselves. For people working on the code, there are separate npm scripts for a browser based dev server, the Tauri desktop dev app, generating app icons, building the frontend for production, and running the linter. Since Stellaris Writing runs locally as a desktop application rather than a hosted service, it fits people who want a writing habit tool that keeps its data on their own machine instead of a cloud account.