seanime-docker/seanime-2.9.10/seanime-desktop

Seanime Desktop

Desktop app for Seanime. Embeds server and web interface.

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Prerequisites

• Go 1.24+
• Node.js 20+ and npm
• Rust 1.75+

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Development

Web Interface

# Working dir: ./seanime-web
npm run dev:desktop

Sidecar

1. Build the server

   # Working dir: .
   
   # Windows
   go build -o seanime.exe -trimpath -ldflags="-s -w" -tags=nosystray
   
   # Linux, macOS
   go build -o seanime -trimpath -ldflags="-s -w"
   

2. Move the binary to ./seanime-desktop/src-tauri/binaries

3. Rename the binary to seanime-{TARGET_TRIPLE}. Reference.

   • seanime-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.exe for Windows
   • seanime-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl for Linux
   • seanime-x86_64-apple-darwin for macOS (Intel-based)
   • seanime-aarch64-apple-darwin for macOS (Apple Silicon)

Tauri

1. Setup

   # Working dir: ./seanime-desktop
   npm install
   

2. Run

   TEST_DATADIR is needed when running in development mode, it should point to a dummy data directory for Seanime.

   # Working dir: ./seanime-desktop
   TEST_DATADIR="/path/to/data/dir" npm run start
   # or
   TEST_DATADIR="/path/to/data/dir" tauri dev
   

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Build

Web Interface

• Option A:

  Uses .env.desktop and outputs to ./seanime-web/out-desktop

  # Working dir: ./seanime-web
  npm run build:desktop
  

  Move the output to ./web-desktop

  # UNIX command
  mv ./seanime-web/out-desktop ./web-desktop
  

• Option B:

  Uses .env.development.desktop and outputs to ./web-desktop

  # Working dir: ./seanime-web
  npm run build:development:desktop
  

Sidecar

1. Build the server

   # Working dir: .
   
   # Windows
   go build -o seanime.exe -trimpath -ldflags="-s -w" -tags=nosystray
   
   # Linux, macOS
   go build -o seanime -trimpath -ldflags="-s -w"
   

2. Move the binary to ./seanime-desktop/src-tauri/binaries

3. Rename the binary to seanime-{TARGET_TRIPLE}. Reference.

   • seanime-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.exe for Windows
   • seanime-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl for Linux
   • seanime-x86_64-apple-darwin for macOS (Intel-based)
   • seanime-aarch64-apple-darwin for macOS (Apple Silicon)

Tauri

Set the signing private key and password. Reference.

• TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY
• TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY_PASSWORD

# Working dir: ./seanime-desktop
TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY="" TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY_PASSWORD="" npm run tauri build

Output is in ./seanime-desktop/src-tauri/target/release/bundle/...