diff --git a/tooling/cli/templates/app/src-tauri/src/desktop.rs b/tooling/cli/templates/app/src-tauri/src/desktop.rs
index ef900d653..c43e6eaf3 100644
--- a/tooling/cli/templates/app/src-tauri/src/desktop.rs
+++ b/tooling/cli/templates/app/src-tauri/src/desktop.rs
@@ -3,6 +3,6 @@
   windows_subsystem = "windows"
 )]
 
-fn main() {
-  app::AppBuilder::new()
+pub fn main() {
+  app::AppBuilder::new().run();
 }