[lvass]

I love the concept of local Web servers as GUI substitutes, and hope we get many more of those. Tachidesk is my favorite example. Thanks to Phoenix Liveview, Elixir is becoming a great option in this space. This method gives us every benefit of Electron and almost none of the downsides.

[chadrs]

I have the opposite opinion. These things tend to get lost in my tabs.

[josefrichter]

Pin your tab.. But I hear you, having the same problem, there are trade-offs for sure.

[lvass]

Or just bookmark them. They usually have the program name in the page title, on firefox just begin with * on the url bar, or press B if you have Vimium.

[sidpatil]

This approach has been around a lot longer than Electron too. Privoxy, i2p, CUPS, etc. were/are all local-first software with Web-based interfaces.

[auraham]

I feel the same. Wonder if the author can provide a bare-bones repository/template with Elixir and WxWidgets to create similar apps.