Notification System for Tauri

[louremipsum]

Hey folks,
I wanted to build a notification system for my Tauri app which supplies notifications which can execute an action or trigger a Redux action upon interaction. I checked out the notification API provided by Tauri but it seems like it can only send notifications with no interactivity.
I check the crate on which the API is based(I think I read this somewhere) which is notify_rust. Now the problem is, that this crate is mainly supported for XDG(Linux) only and many methods straight up give compile errors on MacOS and Windows.

I've searched more on the net for alternatives for an interactive notification like toast-rust(Windows 10 only) or mac-notification-sys(for MacOS) but writing 2 separate implementations for other target OS seems like a chore
It is written that I can use the target_os toggle if I want to use those methods which fail to compile but honestly I don't even know where to start for writing a windows and Mac version.

Are there any alternatives which provide the same or approx. same features as notify_rust but for all 3 platforms OR point me in some direction on how I would go about writing a windows/mac implementation using the target_os toggle.

Thank you for reading this long question, hoping to hear from the community soon :D

[FabianLars]

Are there any alternatives which provide the same or approx. same features as notify_rust but for all 3 platforms

Hmm, i don't know of any alternative and i would imagine that it'd be the ecosystem standard over notify_rust if it would exist.

About the target_os stuff, did you see the small example in their docs? https://docs.rs/notify-rust/latest/notify_rust/index.html#toggles
Here's a small more explicit example:

let mut notification = Notification::new();
#[cfg(any(target_os = "windows", target_os = "linux"))] // For functions that don't work on macos
notification.appname("");
#[cfg(target_os = "macos")] // For functions that only work on macos
notification.some_macos_specific_fn();

notification.show();

At least that's what the docs meant with the toggle.

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I don't think there's a better macos notification library than mac-notification-sys (which is used by notifiy_rust) yet, and i don't think the alternatives to winrt-notification (which is used by notifiy-rust) are any better either 🤔
In other words i think you're stuck with whatever notify_rust offers unless you can contribute to it directly.

[louremipsum]

Hmm, i don't know of any alternative and i would imagine that it'd be the ecosystem standard over notify_rust if it would exist.

Even when I knew the answer to that question, I wanted to be ignorant that maybe I missed something and there is a better library which will solve all my issues lol

I checked the examples in their docs but couldn't make out how would i implement any feature aside from starting from #[cfg(target_os = "macos")] so your example does help me in that respect.
since there is no alternative, I'll just write the implementation myself, maybe contribute if I'm successful.

[maoyaru123]

Hello, I would like to know if you have achieved it. I have encountered the same issue and would like to see if there is a mature solution available.