Storing application data

[ghost]

Where should you store application data like language preferences, or other data?
Is $CONFIG directory the best option for this simple case?

[FabianLars]

Is $CONFIG directory the best option for this simple case?

Yes. We also have this: https://tauri.app/v1/api/js/path/#appdir (also available in rust) to get the path to an app specific directory in the config dir. This is our general recommendation to store stuff, but the next tauri release will have similar convenience functions for the other base dirs, for example appDataDir for non-config data

[escritorio-gustavo]

Awesome! I was doing it in a bunch of lazy_static non-sense, but with this I can swap it for a tokio::sync::OnceCell initialized in setup

[arsalanmohseni]

How do I do that in v2?

[FabianLars]

How do I do that in v2?

@sjcovell's example should still work, you just have to replace path_resolver() with path()

If this is not what you're asking for, please expand on what you mean with "that".

[arsalanmohseni]

How do I do that in v2?

@sjcovell's example should still work, you just have to replace path_resolver() with path()

If this is not what you're asking for, please expand on what you mean with "that".

And how without rust code??

[FabianLars]

The v2 equivalent to the link in my initial message is this: https://v2.tauri.app/reference/javascript/api/namespacepath/#functions

[dezoito]

Here's what I've found. Sorry if it's sloppy, I'm still newer to Rust and Tauri.
.....

If you're doing the work in a command, then you get an app handler for free:

#[tauri::command]
fn some_command(app_handle: tauri::AppHandle) -> String {
  let binding = app_handle.path_resolver().app_data_dir().unwrap();
  let app_data_dir = binding.to_str().unwrap();
  
  app_data_dir.to_string()
}

Thank you @sjcovell ... that was incredibly helpful.