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Shrinkray: Lightweight alternative to Electron
- ishtu 9y agoIt is not lightweight, it just takes less disk space.
- kitsunesoba 9y agoWebKit is generally easier on resources than Chromium/Blink is, sometimes to the tune of multiple hours longer battery life. So while it's still not lightweight, it's more lightweight than Electron is.
- cshepp 9y agoI'm not sure that you can call this an "alternative" to Electron if it only supports macOS. I think the main selling point of Electron is the ability to build cross-platform GUI apps, which Shrinkray doesn't provide.
- pawadu 9y agoRemember when you could only download OSX executables from the Atom home page [1]? In my experience, projects that are OSX first often work horribly on other platforms (the poster child being itunes). Hence I switched to Visual Studio Code the second it became available. [1] they gave you build instructions for linux & windows. Which almost never worked.
- AshleysBrain 9y agoAs far as I can tell it's just a web view wrapper for desktop. It's missing all the node features that Electron or NW.js add, which makes me wonder... why not just run it in a browser like normal?
- prophesi 9y agoHow does this compare with Electrino, which was on top of Hacker News a few days ago? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14260755 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14260755 And I have to agree with other commenters that this will only truly be an alternative if it could be cross-platform. It seems cross-platform support is possible (by using each OS's own browser runtime), but then you'd have discrepancies between platforms which takes us back to square one.
- hackcasual 9y agoElectrino is also only macOS at this point
- david90 9y agoSeems that we start to find Electron heavy-weight a problem.