I built a CLI to test Tauri apps because nothing else worked

I spent a weekend trying to set up end-to-end testing for a Tauri v2 app. Two hours into configuring WebdriverIO, I still couldn't get it to connect to the WebView. The official docs show a minimal...

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I built a CLI to test Tauri apps because nothing else worked

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I spent a weekend trying to set up end-to-end testing for a Tauri v2 app. Two hours into configuring WebdriverIO, I still couldn't get it to connect to the WebView. The official docs show a minimal example that doesn't cover IPC testing. Playwright flat-out doesn't work because Tauri uses WebKitGTK, not Chromium. I gave up and wrote my own tool. The actual problem If you search "Tauri e2e testing" on GitHub, you'll find the same question asked over and over. The official docs split testing into two worlds: Rust unit tests for the backend, and WebDriver-based tests for the frontend. But nobody tells you how to verify that your Tauri IPC commands actually work from the user's perspective. You end up mocking window.__TAURI__ in your frontend tests and hoping production behaves the same way. It doesn't always behave the same way. What I wanted was simple: connect to a running Tauri app, inspect the UI, click buttons, fill forms, and check that things happened. Like Playwright, but for Taur

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