The words 'The app just died' above a list of startup steps that fail silently and one that shows a dialog

Tauri app won't start and shows nothing? How to trap the boot error in a dialog

If a Tauri 2 app fails while it boots, the user sees nothing. I found this out with a missing environment variable: the app panicked, the terminal got a stack trace, and anyone launching it from an icon would have seen an app that refuses to open. This post is the fix I used, which is a native error dialog shown before Tauri starts, plus a clear account of which boot errors it traps and which it does not. ...

October 10, 2026 · 6 min · widnyana