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I know I am really late to this, but one of the things I have been meaning to try is running Electron apps that have Web Apps with [Fluid]( http://fluidapp.com ). I think this may give me the perks without some of the drawbacks. I am not really sure, but it is an experiment I would like to try out.
I've never heard of Fluid before, but it seems to be a glorified shortcut with minor features such as notification badges. I really can't tell how this can integrate with Electron at all. Electron would have you write a web app and package it as an app installed to your Applications folder just like any native app. You'll write this code in JS, HTML, CSS and use Electron APIs. Fluid also would have you write this in…
Re: Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)
#1001With Fluid, you don't do anything from the web developer's prospective. The Fluid app just packages a Web site as a separate application. So, what this means that any user can take a Web site and make that a separate app if they want it.