Tauri GitHub Action

This GitHub Action builds your Tauri application as a native binary for macOS, Linux and Windows and optionally upload it to a GitHub Release.

If your project doesn't include a Tauri project, the action can initialize it for you, so if you don't need to use Tauri's API, you can just ship native apps through this Action without making changes to your web app.

Usage

For more workflow examples, check out the examples directory.

This GitHub Action has three main usages: test the build pipeline of your Tauri app, uploading Tauri artifacts to an existing release, and creating a new release with the Tauri artifacts.

This example shows the most common use case for tauri-action. The action will build the app, create a GitHub release itself, and upload the app bundles to the newly created release.

This is generally the simplest way to release your Tauri app.

name: 'publish'

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - release

# This workflow will trigger on each push to the `release` branch to create or update a GitHub release, build your app, and upload the artifacts to the release.

jobs:
  publish-tauri:
    permissions:
      contents: write
    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
      matrix:
        include:
          - platform: 'macos-latest' # for Arm based macs (M1 and above).
            args: '--target aarch64-apple-darwin'
          - platform: 'macos-latest' # for Intel based macs.
            args: '--target x86_64-apple-darwin'
          - platform: 'ubuntu-22.04' # for Tauri v1 you could replace this with ubuntu-20.04.
            args: ''
          - platform: 'windows-latest'
            args: ''

    runs-on: ${{ matrix.platform }}
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: setup node
        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
        with:
          node-version: lts/*

      - name: install Rust stable
        uses: dtolnay/rust-toolchain@stable
        with:
          # Those targets are only used on macos runners so it's in an `if` to slightly speed up windows and linux builds.
          targets: ${{ matrix.platform == 'macos-latest' && 'aarch64-apple-darwin,x86_64-apple-darwin' || '' }}

      - name: install dependencies (ubuntu only)
        if: matrix.platform == 'ubuntu-22.04' # This must match the platform value defined above.
        run: |
          sudo apt-get update
          sudo apt-get install -y libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev libappindicator3-dev librsvg2-dev patchelf
        # webkitgtk 4.0 is for Tauri v1 - webkitgtk 4.1 is for Tauri v2.
        # You can remove the one that doesn't apply to your app to speed up the workflow a bit.

      - name: install frontend dependencies
        run: yarn install # change this to npm, pnpm or bun depending on which one you use.

      - uses: tauri-apps/tauri-action@v0
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        with:
          tagName: app-v__VERSION__ # the action automatically replaces \_\_VERSION\_\_ with the app version.
          releaseName: 'App v__VERSION__'
          releaseBody: 'See the assets to download this version and install.'
          releaseDraft: true
          prerelease: false
          args: ${{ matrix.args }}

Inputs

Project Initialization

These inputs are only used if your GitHub repository does not contain an existing Tauri project and you want the action to initialize it for you.

Name	Required	Description	Type	Default
projectPath	false	The path to the root of the tauri project relative to the current working directory	string	.
distPath	false	Path to the distributable folder with your index.html and JS/CSS	string
iconPath	false	path to the PNG icon to use as app icon, relative to the projectPath	string
bundleIdentifier	yes, if not set via --config	The bundle identifier to inject when initializing the Tauri app	string
appName	yes, if not set via --config	The app name identifier to inject when initializing the Tauri app	string
appVersion	yes, if not set via --config	The app version to inject when initializing the Tauri app	string

Build Options

These inputs allow you to change how your Tauri project will be build.

Name	Required	Description	Type	Default
projectPath	false	The path to the root of the tauri project relative to the current working directory	string	.
includeDebug	false	whether to include a debug build or not	bool	false
includeRelease	false	whether to include a release build or not	bool	true
includeUpdaterJson	false	whether to upload a JSON file for the updater or not (only relevant if the updater is configured)	bool	true
updaterJsonPreferNsis	false	whether the action will use the NSIS (setup.exe) or WiX (.msi) bundles for the updater JSON if both types exist	bool	false. May be changed to true for projects using tauri@v2 in the future.
updaterJsonKeepUniversal	false	whether the updater JSON file should include universal macOS builds as darwin-universal on top of using it in the aarch64 and x86_64 fields.	bool	false
tauriScript	false	the script to execute the Tauri CLI. It must not include any args or commands like build	string	npm run|pnpm|yarn tauri
args	false	Additional arguments to the current build command	string
retryAttempts	false	The number of times to re-try building the app if the initial build fails. For now this only affects tauri build but may include the upload steps in the future.	number	0

Release Configuration

These inputs allow you to modify the GitHub release.

Name	Required	Description	Type	Default
releaseId	false	The id of the release to upload artifacts as release assets. If set, tagName and releaseName will not be considered to find a release.	number
tagName	false	The tag name of the release to upload/create or the tag of the release belonging to releaseId	string
releaseName	false	The name of the release to create. Required if there's no existing release for tagName	string
releaseBody	false	The body of the release to create	string
releaseDraft	false	Whether the release to find or create is a draft or not	bool	false
prerelease	false	Whether the release to create is a prerelease or not	bool	false
releaseCommitish	false	Any branch or commit SHA the Git tag is created from, unused if the Git tag already exists.	string	SHA of current commit
owner	false	The account owner of the repository the release will be uploaded to. Requires GITHUB_TOKEN in env and a releaseCommitish target if it doesn't match the current repo.	string	owner of the current repo
repo	false	The name of the repository the release will be uploaded to. Requires GITHUB_TOKEN in env and a releaseCommitish target if it doesn't match the current repo.	string	name of the current repo

Outputs

Name	Description
releaseId	The ID of the created release
releaseHtmlUrl	The URL users can navigate to in order to view the created release
releaseUploadUrl	The URL for uploading assets to the created release
artifactPaths	The paths of the generated artifacts
appVersion	The version of the app

Tips and Caveats

• You can use this Action on a repo that doesn't have Tauri configured. We automatically initialize Tauri before building, and configure it to use your Web artifacts.
  • You can configure the project initialization with the distPath and iconPath options.
  • If you need to further customize the default tauri.conf.json file you can add a custom config that will be merged with the default one at build time.
    • args: --config custom-config.json
• You can run custom Tauri CLI scripts with the tauriScript option. So instead of running yarn tauri <COMMAND> <ARGS> or npm run tauri <COMMAND> <ARGS>, we'll execute ${tauriScript} <COMMAND> <ARGS>.
  • Useful when you need custom build functionality when creating Tauri apps e.g. a desktop:build script.
  • tauriScript can also be an absolute file path pointing to a tauri-cli binary. The path currently cannot contain spaces.
• If you want to add additional arguments to the build command, you can use the args option. For example, if you're setting a specific target for your build, you can specify args: --target your-target-arch.
• When your Tauri app is not in the root of the repo, use the projectPath input.
  • Usually it will work without it, but the action will install and use a global @tauri-apps/cli installation instead of your project's CLI which can cause issues if you also configured tauriScript or if you have multiple tauri.conf.json files in your repo.
  • Additionally, relative paths provided via the --config flag will be resolved relative to the projectPath to match Tauri's behavior.
• If releaseId is set, the action will use this release to upload assets to. If tagName is set the action will try to find an existing release for that tag. If there's none, the action requires releaseName to create a new release for the specified tagName.
• If you create the release yourself and provide a releaseId but do not set tagName, the download url for updater bundles in latest.json will point to releases/latest/download/<bundle> which can cause issues if your repo contains releases that do not include updater bundles.
• If you provide a tagName to an existing release, releaseDraft must be set to true if the existing release is a draft.
• If you only want to build the app without having the action upload any assets, for example if you want to only use actions/upload-artifact, simply omit tagName, releaseName and releaseId.

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