🖥️ Tracker

Tracker is a lightweight, cross-platform desktop app built with Tauri, Rust, React, Tailwind CSS, and Deno.
It allows you to monitor system processes in real-time, including:

• 🔍 Process name and ID
• ⏱️ Running time (formatted)
• 🧠 Memory usage (live, formatted intelligently)
• 📈 Highlight processes using maximum memory and longest running

Designed to be minimal, fast, and offline-first — no servers needed!

✨ Features

• Real-time system process tracking
• Highlight:
  • 🚀 Process consuming the most memory
  • 🕒 Process running for the longest time
• Background memory monitoring and alerts ⚠️
• Responsive, elegant UI with Tailwind CSS
• Tiny final binary using Rust release optimizations
• Built with 💛 using Deno + Vite for frontend

📦 Tech Stack

🚀 Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Rust
• Deno
• Tauri CLI (cargo install tauri-cli)
• Node.js (optional for some tooling)

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/lordofthemind/tracker.git
cd tracker

Build frontend

deno task build

(uses Vite to build the production-ready React app)

Run in development mode

cargo tauri dev

This starts the Tauri dev server + React frontend together for live reload.

Build final desktop binary

# Build frontend
deno task build

# Build optimized binary
cargo tauri build

Find your executable inside:

src-tauri/target/release/bundle/

📸 Screenshots

⚡ Folder Structure

tracker/
├── public/             # Static files
├── src/                # React frontend (TypeScript + Tailwind)
├── src-tauri/          # Tauri backend (Rust)
│   ├── main.rs
│   ├── lib.rs
│   └── tauri.conf.json
├── deno.json           # Deno tasks
├── vite.config.ts      # Vite configuration
├── tailwind.config.ts  # Tailwind configuration
└── README.md

🧠 How It Works

• Rust backend uses sysinfo crate to list system processes.
• Frontend calls backend functions using @tauri-apps/api/core invoke().
• Displays:
  • Process Name
  • Process ID
  • Running Time (formatted nicely)
  • Memory Usage (auto-formatted to KB/MB/GB)
• Background memory monitoring with Rust thread.

💡 Future Improvements

• Add sorting/filtering options in frontend
• Show CPU usage per process
• Add light/dark theme toggle
• System tray support for background monitoring
• Notifications for high memory usage

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome!
Feel free to open an issue or submit a pull request 🚀

📜 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.
See the LICENSE file for details.

📣 Acknowledgements

• Tauri
• React
• Deno
• Tailwind CSS
• Sysinfo

🛡️ Tracker - "Track your system's pulse."