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A new cross-platform solution for Web developers

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Re: A new cross-platform solution for Web developers

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Post by heapwolf »

rdela wrote: post #10
heapwolf wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We officially support iOS, Android, MacOS, Linux, Windows, XBox, Android TV, and unofficially a few others that are in-progress (Apple Watch, ChromeOS). We should definitely put a list somewhere on the site.

Seems like Socket's mobile platform support is more mature than Tauri's to me. Are there other benefits to solo devs or small teams choosing Socket over Tauri beyond that and not having to write Rust to interact with the underlying system?

The development pattern with Socket runtime is dramatically simpler and more secure than Electron or Tauri because we've made the Main process optional. When you build an Electron app, for example, you spend a huge amount of time and energy marshaling data between the UI and the Main process. You end up essentially designing your own routing system. That can be a lot of work to maintain.

In terms of security, an optional Main process means a smaller surface area to worry about when considering your end-user's safety.

Historically, the super strict separation of UI and Main was implemented as a security precaution. For example, you didn’t want the front end doing naughty things to your file system, because after all, who knows when a rouge request might be somehow injected or some data may be unescaped. But in reality it didn't resolve the problem, it just moved the risk into Main - where the same problems still exist, because Main is an arbitrary binary with many most likely unaudited, transient dependencies, and unmitigated access to the OS.

We reduced the overall surface area and locked it down with CSP (a web standard) to granularly control 100% of the native capabilities. In other words, there is less solution-specific ceremony to spend time on, you get to focus on your real problems.

Re: A new cross-platform solution for Web developers

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Post by ssali123 »

rdela wrote: post #10
heapwolf wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We officially support iOS, Android, MacOS, Linux, Windows, XBox, Android TV, and unofficially a few others that are in-progress (Apple Watch, ChromeOS). We should definitely put a list somewhere on the site.

Seems like Socket's mobile platform support is more mature than Tauri's to me. Are there other benefits to solo devs or small teams choosing Socket over Tauri beyond that and not having to write Rust to interact with the underlying system?

Is Socket compatible with Qwik? Asking here coz Tauri does and has a tutorial on how to use Qwik on Tauri

Re: A new cross-platform solution for Web developers

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Post by heapwolf »

ssali123 wrote: post #13

Do you guys have a tutorial on live p2p video/audio streaming? I wanna check it out!

We dont have a tutorial for that yet, but we have reached a stable point with the p2p protocol and all the foundation has been laid for doing audio and video. Soon we will be releasing an open source project that demonstrates how to use the p2p protocol. You can sign up for the beta here: https://socketsupply.co/relay/

Re: A new cross-platform solution for Web developers

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Post by heapwolf »

ssali123 wrote: post #15
rdela wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seems like Socket's mobile platform support is more mature than Tauri's to me. Are there other benefits to solo devs or small teams choosing Socket over Tauri beyond that and not having to write Rust to interact with the underlying system?

Is Socket compatible with Qwik? Asking here coz Tauri does and has a tutorial on how to use Qwik on Tauri

Yes! It will definitely work in Socket runtime. We don't have an example of how to use Qwick, we have examples of how to use React, Next, Vue since they are some of the most well known frameworks (https://github.com/socketsupply/socket-examples/tree/master/...).

Pretty much any code that runs on the Web will "just work" in Socket.

Re: A new cross-platform solution for Web developers

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Post by jchrisa »

mikealrogersHN wrote: post #18

Looks great! Since I've never heard anybody prefer React Native to just regular old React, React Native seems kinda pointless now.

P2P connection in the runtime will make a huge difference for apps - outside pressure like this (and React Native) is what ultimately drives the web platform forward.
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