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How does the "hybrid approach" differ from Electron and why is it so much smaller? Don't they still need to embed a full browser engine if the UI is all JS and
by ptx 9y ago
How does the "hybrid approach" differ from Electron and why is it so much smaller? Don't they still need to embed a full browser engine if the UI is all JS and HTML?
- drinchev 9y agomacOS offers WKWebView [1], which essentially uses internal webkit ( safari ) for running the application. And since all libraries are already on your OS, the build is really small, as well as the memory footprint. 1: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/webkit/wkwebview https://developer.apple.com/documentation/webkit/wkwebview
- szastupov 9y agoSlack used to use WebKit but they migrated to Electron for various reasons explained in their blog post https://slack.engineering/building-hybrid-applications-with-electron-dc67686de5fb https://slack.engineering/building-hybrid-applications-with-...