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by kizer
1546 days ago
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Well, there are a number of “selling points” to electron/NW.JS or similar: reuse JS code/skills/libraries (npm) to build desktop apps; use Node.JS to build desktop apps; cross-platform. It clearly lowered the barrier and from a company’s perspective front-end talent’s “reach” is expanded. Even way before they came out I wondered why more native apps didn’t just reuse HTML/CSS at least (many did). Of course we all know of the downsides of Electron (basically Chromium + An App in every app; ridiculously heavy-weight. I’m fond of the webview project and Tauri, being built on top of it. It reuses the available system browser view and doesn’t bundle Node, so it’s very light. |
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It's 'light' in terms of download size, it's not far off from Electron in terms of resource usage. Most complaints about Electron are about resource usage, not really download size (though there are some).