Raphael

I spent too long in previous projects staring at Webpack rebuilds. When I started QoreDB, I picked Vite on day one and never looked back. The dev server starts in milliseconds, hot module replacement is practically instant, and the config is minimal. That matters more than it sounds : when you're a solo dev iterating fast on a complex UI (query editor, result tables, connection panels), every second of feedback delay adds up. Vite gave me back that time.

As a solo developer building a desktop app, I needed two things: speed and polish. shadcn/ui gave me both. The components look great out of the box, the Radix primitives handle accessibility for me, and since I own the source code, I never hit a wall when I need custom behavior. The community around it is incredible too : every week there's a new pattern or inspiration I can adapt. It let me build a UI that looks like it was made by a design team, not one person.

The Tauri community sold me before the tech did. But then the tech delivered: a Rust core where I could write real database drivers (Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, SQLite) with zero overhead, a security sandbox that lets me handle credentials responsibly, and a bundle size that respects my users' machines (~15MB). As a solo dev, I was tired of database tools that feel like opening a browser tab. Tauri let me build something that feels native, because it actually is.