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You can use Electron and do that. Not a ton of love for it around here because omg a web page as a desktop app the horror but I've had good experiences with it.
by rco8786 10y ago
You can use Electron and do that. Not a ton of love for it around here because omg a web page as a desktop app the horror but I've had good experiences with it. (And if you e ever used Slack or Atom, you've used Electron)
- coldtea 10y ago>You can use Electron and do that. Not a ton of love for it around here because omg a web page as a desktop app the horror but I've had good experiences with it. Parent specifically mentions they want to get away from the performance issues of web apps [1] -- and you suggest they use Electron -- and even bring up Atom and Slack as examples, the worst CPU/slowness offenders of all time? [1] "Currently we are running into some performance issues with large datasets and spreadsheets, and being able to offer a performant desktop app would be ideal"
- rco8786 10y ago"I really want React for desktop apps". There's currently one way to achieve that, was simply suggesting it. They didn't mention web apps at all.
- idobai 10y agoElectron is the worst thing happened to desktop apps lately. They're slow and resource-hungry. It's a really bad idea.
- pierrec 10y agoYou can use Electron to handle performance-sensitive large datasets and spreadsheets for a desktop app. But I think there is an even better solution for this: you could program it in DOS 5.0 batch and ship it with a Windows 3.1 VM to really juice out that last bit of performance and efficiency.