Outer Wilds Mod Manager
2023 • tauri • rust • web • react • outer-wilds
A fully-featured manager for Outer Wilds mods
![Outer Wilds Mod Manager](/_astro/ow-mod-man.BuZpCtbz_zIPQY.webp)
This was my first fully-fledged desktop app, it was made with Tauri which is a frontend-agnostic application development framework that uses Rust.
For the frontend portion, I went with React as the UI framework and Material UI for styling. Although I started out with Pico CSS, I found that the styles and overall customization of the framework were limited, so I switched to MUI.
It was based on the old mod manager and tried to improve functionality and Linux support.
Development took a little bit over 5 months, I made a core package so anyone can interface with mods, a CLI for easily managing mods without a full GUI, and a GUI for user-friendliness.
It was my first time distributing a complete app to multiple sources and testing compatibility across various platforms. Getting Steam Deck support via Flathub was especially challenging.