How to prevent dioxus cli from building local storage for desktop apps?

[Cavenfish]

I've noticed that the dioxus cli makes a directory for local storage when building desktop apps, in my case ~/.local/share/<app-name>-<hash> , every new build. I don't plan on using it so I'd rather it not make them, but I couldn't find out how to stop it. Is there a way to disable it?

Additionally, is there a quick method for cleaning stale builds? I don't see a clean command in the cli.

[apoorva-01]

That folder is the WebView's user-data directory (cookies, cache, localStorage, IndexedDB). The webview needs somewhere to keep that, so you can't turn it off outright, but you can stop the pileup.

By default dioxus picks the path for you, and you're landing a fresh <app>-<hash> each build. Pin it to a fixed location instead and it'll just reuse that one dir:

use dioxus_desktop::Config;

Config::new().with_data_directory("/path/to/appdata")

Point it wherever you want (even a folder inside your project that you gitignore, if you want it disposable). Same path every build means one dir, no more churn.

For the stale ones already sitting in ~/.local/share, they're just directories, so rm -rf them. There's no dx subcommand that cleans that dir, and cargo clean won't touch it either since it lives outside target/.