To understand how we got here we first need to take a step back to see how we developed apps over the last 15 years.īefore our new approach for building hybrid applications existed all of our apps were written with a completely different backend on every platform. It took us a while to realize how great Rust is and how it could solve many of the problems we had. Here’s a quick sketch on how everything fits together.Īn overview of our hybrid application architecture used within 1Password for Linux A quick trip down memory lane Finally we bundled everything using Electron to allow us to integrate deeply with the operating system. To tie everything together we used Neon along with a home-grown TypeShare tool for generating types on both sides of the FFI layer. We had a lot of success with TypeScript and React when developing the web interface for as well as our browser extension so these were natural choices here. Not only does it look great but it allows us to be incredibly agile and iterate quickly. On the frontend side of things we used web technologies to allow us to create an entirely new design language for 1Password. Rust compiles directly to native code and avoids the overhead associated with runtimes or garbage collection. The backend is written in Rust, a true systems programming language known for its safety and performance. A hybrid app powered by Rust 🦀ġPassword for Linux is our first hybrid app. I thought it would be fun to go through a high-level overview of how 1Password for Linux was architected, how we came to fall in love with Rust, and highlight some of the incredible things our team has been doing to make our new Linux app a reality. In fact more than half of the team that contributed to 1Password for Linux joined our family within the last 18 months.
What makes this release even more amazing is it was created from scratch and developed using new languages and techniques most of our team never used before.Īlmost everything you can name we did in a new way: from team organization, programming languages and toolkits, design language and processes, all the way through to new deployment and packaging and testing procedures. We officially launched 1Password for Linux today! 🎉
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