[claudius]

> a front-end using web tech which connects to a localhost server

But what advantage does that offer over a native application? You’d then need a ‘native’ web server and would still rely on the local browser in a way that opens you up to more incompatibilities than just using the native interface framework?

[jfb]

Ease of development for folks who aren't platform-native. Doesn't appeal to me, but then, I've parted ways with web applications.

[claudius]

Assuming you are really a one-man team, you’d still have to set up the web server, database etc., which I imagine to be somewhat cumbersome on an ‘unknown’ platform.

An interesting usecase would be a LAN-local server, which would (with server-side data processing) avoid the slow uploading of data over the internet and could still utilise native computation speeds on the server.