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NovyWave

Building from Source

NovyWave has a browser-oriented development mode and a desktop Tauri mode. Both rely on the same Rust-based frontend.

Prerequisites

Section titled “Prerequisites”
  • Rust stable
  • cargo-make
  • the wasm32-unknown-unknown Rust target

Install the common prerequisites with:

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rustup target add wasm32-unknown-unknown
cargo install cargo-make

Clone the Source Repository

Section titled “Clone the Source Repository”
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git clone https://github.com/NovyWave/NovyWave.git
cd NovyWave

Install Project Dependencies

Section titled “Install Project Dependencies”
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makers install

Browser Development Mode

Section titled “Browser Development Mode”
Terminal window
makers start

This starts the MoonZoon development server and serves the app locally.

Desktop Development Mode

Section titled “Desktop Development Mode”
Terminal window
makers tauri

This launches the desktop shell around the same frontend.

Production Builds

Section titled “Production Builds”
Terminal window
makers build
makers tauri-build

Use the first command for the web build and the second for packaged desktop artifacts.

Chrome Launcher

Section titled “Chrome Launcher”
Terminal window
makers chrome-build

This compiles src-chrome/ and produces target/release/novywave-chrome.

Plugins

Section titled “Plugins”
Terminal window
makers build_plugins

This compiles all built-in WebAssembly plugins to plugins/dist/.

Important Note

Section titled “Important Note”

Prefer makers tasks over direct cargo build or cargo check when following NovyWave’s documented workflows, because the project wires browser, Tauri, and WASM steps together through those tasks.