NeutralinoJS: Lightweight Electron alternative using native browser controls

Post by bobblywobbles » Thu, Feb 27, 2020, 5:50 AM UTC

throwlaplace wrote: post #165

gigel82 wrote: post #113

I see projects like this pop up every once in a while and get abandoned. A simpler approach may be to just publish a basic web server as your app (express on top of node would do) that runs on the local machine on some random port and have users just go to that URL with their regular installed browser. Bonus points for no leakage of security / CORS / etc. issues from the UI side of things, every unsafe thing needs to…

Does the browser really have access to all the same apis as electron? Doesn't electron have broader access to the file system (e.g. all the stuff that vscode does).

Post by tsukurimashou » Thu, Feb 27, 2020, 9:08 AM UTC

lucsky wrote: post #96

csnover wrote: post #64

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I’m currently running three Electron apps: Spotify, Skype, and VS Code. Spotify: 1083.7 MB. VS Code: 890.9 MB. Skype: 406 MB. In the past, I’ve had projects open in VS Code which have caused that number to shoot up into the multi-gigabyte range. Of course this is all anecdotal but I am pretty sure these numbers come from actual experiences that people are having with Electron apps.

I wish this urban legend would just stop: the Spotify desktop client is NOT an Electron app, it's a CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework) app.

Post by tsukurimashou » Thu, Feb 27, 2020, 9:10 AM UTC

andai wrote: post #109

hnuser123456 wrote: post #81

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Keybase also uses in the range of 600MB-1GB, and 8 processes, most of which don't exit when you exit the application. I'm not sure what Discord uses because I only run it in the browser, but I'm sure it's in the same range as all of the above. I've come up with a powershell snippet to fully quit keybase and reclaim ~1GB RAM: get-process | Where-Object {$_.path -match "keybase"} | Stop-Process

>I'm not sure what Discord uses because I only run it in the browser Me too, and you just made me realize, there already exists a system for running Electron apps in a shared instance of Chrome, and it's installed on almost everyone's computer! You just... open the web version, in Chrome :)

Post by zserge » Thu, Feb 27, 2020, 9:51 AM UTC

rubyn00bie wrote: post #106

What is the difference between this and https://github.com/zserge/webview which it's based on? Or what do I get from this that I don't from webview (which I've been considering in Rust)?

Post by sheerun » Thu, Feb 27, 2020, 12:31 PM UTC