Web UI (Tauri + Solid)

Alongside the native Avalonia picker, Clipwell ships a web UI: the same picker built on a web stack, wrapped as a desktop app with Tauri and also openable in any browser. It's another thin client of the daemon — same REST + WebSocket API — so it works on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Two ways to run it

In any browser — the daemon serves the built UI:

dotnet run --project daemon     # then open:
# http://127.0.0.1:8787/app

As a desktop app (Tauri) — global hotkey, tray, paste‑into‑the‑source‑app:

cd webui
bun install
bun run tauri dev     # or: bun run tauri build

What it does

Feature parity with the native picker: search with live match highlighting; typed rows with kind icons (Lucide), favicons, image thumbnails, color swatches, and the source app; a metadata line with time, character count, image dimensions, and an edited tag; type filter + pinned/sensitive pills, all with live counts; grouping by date or source; Compact and Detail views; Quick Look (Ctrl+Y); a Ctrl+K action palette (including Edit content and Paste as plain text); pin (Ctrl+P) / sensitive (Ctrl+Shift+L, masked) / edit (Ctrl+E) / delete / rename (F2); an error banner with Retry when the daemon is unreachable; infinite scroll; settings (theme, default view/grouping, metadata, retention, hotkey) and diagnostics; live updates over WebSocket; light/dark with the OS default.

As a Tauri desktop app it adds the global hotkey (Alt+Shift+V), a tray icon, hide‑on‑blur, a transparent rounded‑card window, and pasting the chosen item back into the app you came from — Enter keeps rich formatting where it was captured, Alt+Shift+Enter pastes plain text.

Stack

Solid.js + Vite, Tailwind CSS v4, TypeScript 7 (the Go‑native tsgo, type‑check only), Biome (lint/format) and knip (dead‑code), built and run with Bun; Tauri 2 for the desktop shell. Plugin detectors run in the daemon, so the web UI gets their item kinds automatically; the built‑in actions are reimplemented in TypeScript (the .NET action plugins load only in the Avalonia UI).

Requirements

The browser version needs only the running daemon. Building the Tauri desktop app additionally needs Bun, the Rust toolchain, and the platform webview build tools (Windows: the Visual Studio C++ Build Tools + WebView2; Linux: webkit2gtk).