Work

A desktop browser for one thing only: the web tools you work in. A left nav lists them, clicking one shows it, and links between them navigate inside the app. Everything else opens in your real browser.

Tauri 2 · Rust · React 19 · Tailwind CSS 4 · macOS

There is no address bar, no tab strip, and no way to reach a site that is not on the list. That is the point.

How it works

Every app is its own webview. Not an iframe — Google, Microsoft and most SaaS send X-Frame-Options: DENY, so an iframe-based version of this app cannot exist. Each tool gets a real child webview (Window::add_child), and they all stay loaded, so switching keeps your scroll position, your half-typed draft, and anything counting down.

The shell measures, Rust positions. A child webview is a native view that takes no part in CSS layout. The React shell leaves an empty <div id="stage">, measures it with a ResizeObserver, and reports the rect; Rust sizes the active webview to it and hides the rest. It also means a native view paints over anything the shell draws, which is why opening Settings hides the stage first.

Links are routed by intent, not by URL alone. An injected script catches genuine user clicks and target=_blank, and only those. A URL outside the app's own hosts is handed to Rust over a made-up workapp-route: scheme — deliberately not Tauri IPC, which would mean granting google.com the ability to call into this app. Rust then decides:

Target	What happens
The current app's hosts	Nothing — ordinary navigation
A known identity provider	Stays inside, so SSO can complete
Another app on your list	Switches to that app and navigates it
Anything else	Opens in your default browser

Redirects are never blocked. on_navigation returns true for everything that is not the sentinel, because a strict navigation filter breaks every OAuth chain the moment it bounces through accounts.google.com.

Sessions persist. Each webview keeps its cookies across restarts, so you log into a tool once. Every app also claims a real Chrome user agent by default, because Google refuses logins from anything it identifies as an embedded webview.

Apps and groups

An app owns the exact host of its URL — mail.google.com, not google.com — or Gmail and Drive would each swallow the other's links. Where two scopes match, the longest wins. Extra hosts can be added per app.

Groups are for the nav only. Deleting one keeps its apps, ungrouped: deleting a folder should never be a way to lose the things inside it.

The nav collapses to a 52px icon rail that is still clickable, so switching apps never requires expanding it first.

Running it

npm install && npm run tauri dev

Shipping it

Build, replace the copy in /Applications, and relaunch — one command:

npm run ship

No disk image; nothing here is being distributed.

Configuration

apps.json, under ~/Library/Application Support/com.vincent.workapp/. Hand-editing it is supported — missing fields fall back to their defaults, and an app with no scope gets its URL's host.

Tests

cd src-tauri && cargo test

Routing and config are pure and carry real tests: scope matching and its precedence, identity-provider passthrough, the routing decisions, sentinel round-trips, and config round-trips. Webview orchestration and bounds sync have no seam a unit test can reach and are verified by running the app.