SkyCast Desktop

SkyCast is a Tauri desktop weather dashboard built with React, Vite, and Open-Meteo's no-key public APIs.

Screenshots

Features

• City search with geocoding
• Current conditions, hourly forecast, and 10-day outlook
• Temperature, rain chance, and wind trend charts
• Air quality snapshot
• Live app CPU and RAM usage powered by Rust and refreshed every 2 seconds
• Metric/imperial unit toggle
• Favorite locations with local persistence
• Current-location lookup through the desktop webview
• Animated dashboard UI with responsive desktop layouts
• Windows release executable runs without opening a separate console window

Run

npm install
npm run tauri dev

For a frontend-only browser preview:

npm run dev

Build

Build a production desktop app and Windows installer:

npm run tauri build

This project is configured to generate an NSIS installer on Windows.

Primary outputs:

• Desktop executable: src-tauri\target\release\skycast.exe
• Windows installer: src-tauri\target\release\bundle\nsis\SkyCast_0.1.0_x64-setup.exe

Notes

• Weather data comes from Open-Meteo forecast, geocoding, and air-quality APIs.
• The app resource monitor uses Rust via a Tauri command and sysinfo.
• The installer package is smaller for distribution, but installed size is still based on the actual app binary and assets.