Show HN: Electrico – Electron Without Node and Chrome

Post by esperent » Wed, Sep 18, 2024, 1:56 AM UTC

WorldMaker wrote: post #56

wruza wrote: post #37

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an operating system's "native web view" (WRY) Isn’t that just a randomly abandoned version of something of uncertain origin, on average? Why would one want use it? I guess to save distribution space. I don’t have a “top”-deps itch, but using an arbitrary webview sounds compatibility hell even to me.

At this point most operating systems are ahead of Electron on average, not behind it. Electron takes longer to bundle a new Chrome version than it should. Then it takes a while for applications to actually upgrade Electron versions because that includes the compatibility headaches of keeping up with all of Chrome changes, Node changes, and Electron API changes at the same time. Some apps are years behind on Electron…

Post by killcoder » Wed, Sep 18, 2024, 9:48 AM UTC

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Renderers can access Node APIs via the ‘node integration’ setting or via a preload script.

Aren't these just IPCs disguised as normal function calls though? IIRC only the main node process does anything node, renderers can call "node functions" that really happen in the main process.

Post by nicoburns » Wed, Sep 18, 2024, 12:24 PM UTC

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It's great that you mention the climate impact of Electron apps, because those bloated monsters truly are a huge problem; though I think you underestimate how much the Tauri team's focus has been on shrinking app size to alleviate the environmental impact made by the download of said huge Electron apps. One of the things that actually made me interested in Tauri in the first place was their 1.0 Release[0] which inclu…

I understand where this guy was coming from with the comment about Tauri being the same type of thing, but when you really take a look at Tauri, it seems to really hold up. There are some Tauri apps that have performance that is easily on par with native. The only thing is that Tauri apps seem to be quite easy for the developer to botch and end up with performance problems. One of the worst performing apps I ever use…

Post by Terretta » Thu, Sep 19, 2024, 11:12 AM UTC

wruza wrote: post #37

koito17 wrote: post #2

Looks like a thin wrapper around Tauri. The README doesn't do a good job at explaining why one should use this over Tauri itself. From what I understand, this project attempts to implement a subset of the Electron API so that the library can act as a "drop-in replacement" for simple enough Electron apps. If this understanding is correct, then I think Electrico has the potential to significantly boost adoption of Taur…

an operating system's "native web view" (WRY) Isn’t that just a randomly abandoned version of something of uncertain origin, on average? Why would one want use it? I guess to save distribution space. I don’t have a “top”-deps itch, but using an arbitrary webview sounds compatibility hell even to me.