Electron Fiddle: Get started with Electron
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Electron Fiddle: Get started with Electron
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Re: Electron Fiddle: Get started with Electron
#2Honest question, when solutions like https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri exist out there that promise smaller build sizes and similar developer experiences, are folks still using Electron to build new apps?
Re: Electron Fiddle: Get started with Electron
#3Honest question, when solutions like https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri exist out there that promise smaller build sizes and similar developer experiences, are folks still using Electron to build new apps?
Unfortunately despite Tauri being very performant, small, and having good UX it looks like most projects are still using Electron. I've built a prime number calculator which draws a graph in the webview using Tauri [0], this has was part of a series of projects of mine that calculated prime numbers and displayed them to compare performance of browsers and backend languages. The application does all the calculation in Rust and I got to say I will never ever go back to even considering Electron again.
I believe the reason why people look to still be using Electron is simillar to why people use React. Sure it's a bit bloated, a bit hard to master, it has some design flaws, but it's well adopted, and hundreds of successful companies use it in production. Meanwhile Tauri is rust the new kid in the block.
Re: Electron Fiddle: Get started with Electron
#4Honest question, when solutions like https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri exist out there that promise smaller build sizes and similar developer experiences, are folks still using Electron to build new apps?
There is something to be said for a unified frontend and backend that closely mirror the existing browser API just extended. It comes with it's downsides too, where Tauri obviously shines, but really I see Tauri and Electron as two different approaches not direct competition. Last I checked Rust was still the only native backend too, that changing may help its story. Of course there is always the ecosystem size difference too but that normally sorts itself out with time.
Re: Electron Fiddle: Get started with Electron
#5Honest question, when solutions like https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri exist out there that promise smaller build sizes and similar developer experiences, are folks still using Electron to build new apps?
One problem with Tauri is that it doesn't bundle Node runtime, meaning that you can't take advantage of the npm packages that works outside of a browser environment. It does allow you to use Rust packages, but that's another story than Javascript.
Re: Electron Fiddle: Get started with Electron
#6Honest question, when solutions like https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri exist out there that promise smaller build sizes and similar developer experiences, are folks still using Electron to build new apps?
It's not really the same developer experience. Because it's a browser JS engine it's much less powerful than electron, and you need to write more rust as a result. For many people that's probably not a demerit but for others it will be.
Re: Electron Fiddle: Get started with Electron
#7Honest question, when solutions like https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri exist out there that promise smaller build sizes and similar developer experiences, are folks still using Electron to build new apps?
Yeah Tauri is in Rust, whereas I want to write the backend and frontend in the same language (TS) and share code
Re: Electron Fiddle: Get started with Electron
#8Honest question, when solutions like https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri exist out there that promise smaller build sizes and similar developer experiences, are folks still using Electron to build new apps?
I've heard of electron, but not tauri. Maybe it's just not known enough to be included in the decision?
Re: Electron Fiddle: Get started with Electron
#9Honest question, when solutions like https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri exist out there that promise smaller build sizes and similar developer experiences, are folks still using Electron to build new apps?
I've heard of electron, but not tauri. Maybe it's just not known enough to be included in the decision?
Same. I figured I could be out of the loop but ... so are other people.
Re: Electron Fiddle: Get started with Electron
#10Honest question, when solutions like https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri exist out there that promise smaller build sizes and similar developer experiences, are folks still using Electron to build new apps?
One problem with Tauri is that it doesn't bundle Node runtime, meaning that you can't take advantage of the npm packages that works outside of a browser environment. It does allow you to use Rust packages, but that's another story than Javascript.
Yes. As a user, I’m rooting for Tauri, but as a developer, I could probably build my app faster using Electron. Unfortunately, past experience tells me that companies usually optimize for ease of development instead of performance, most of the time :(