Built with

YouTube Downloader

You paste a YouTube link. RuForge downloads the file and plays it locally. There is no in-app YouTube player.

yt-dlp Engine

Every download and metadata preview shells out to a bundled yt-dlp binary. Rust owns the process; React shows the progress.

SponsorBlock API

Community skip segments from SponsorBlock apply to local files, same idea as the browser extension, without streaming from YouTube.

Tauri v2 Shell

Tauri turns the Vite React app into a signed Windows desktop binary with extra windows, sidecars, and IPC.

Rust Core

Downloads, disk scans, ffmpeg jobs, and SponsorBlock fetches run in Rust. The React layer invokes and renders.

React 19 Core

The desktop UI is React 19 inside Tauri webviews. Tabs replace a router; Zustand picks the active surface.

FFmpeg Processing

ffmpeg and ffprobe ship as bundled sidecars for yt-dlp muxing, scrubber sprite sheets, and quiet metadata probes.

Zustand State Store

One Zustand store is the main-window brain: nav, settings, download queue, gallery list, and hero metadata.

Vite Build Tool

Vite bundles the desktop React app that Tauri loads in main and mini webviews.

TypeScript

Frontend domain types and IPC boundaries are TypeScript so refactors fail at compile time, not in the webview.

Tailwind CSS

Tailwind v4 utility classes plus rf-* CSS tokens style the desktop app and the public site from the same palette idea.

Astro Site

The public RuForge site in `website/` is Astro 5 static output, deployed to Cloudflare Pages.

WebView2 Shell

On Windows, WebView2 (Edge Chromium) hosts the React UI and a separate embedded surface for Explorer cookie flows.

Framer Motion

Framer Motion shows up on the marketing site hero, not in the desktop player control dock.

Lucide Icons

Lucide React icons are the default glyph set for downloader, library, player, settings, and queue UI.

Sharp Images

Sharp is Astro image pipeline dependency. It runs at site build time, not in the desktop app.