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I started down the electron path and will probably back out. So many get-started things in electron are just massive boiler-plate. Electron-vue is awful boiler
by djsumdog 9y ago
I started down the electron path and will probably back out. So many get-started things in electron are just massive boiler-plate. Electron-vue is awful boiler plate with so much pre-made crap I don't understand how any of it fits together and some really simply stackoverflow questions have gone forever without being answered:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48337401/unable-to-test-better-sqlite3-within-a-project-based-on-electron-vue-boilerplate https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48337401/unable-to-test-...
Not to mention electron apps are massive (Slack is 90M+ for a fucking chat client. Audium/Pidgin anyone?)
Electron is a huge step backwards really. I don't see why people praise it so much.
- mikewhy 9y agoSo you picked an "awful boilerplate" where you "don't understand how any of it fits together" and that's a failing of Electron?
- djsumdog 9y agoThey're all awful boilerplate. Almost every single toolkit or getting started example I looked at involved cloning something of boilerplate, including React, Vue, etc. I couldn't even find decent clean examples, and as I tried putting them together, there was just a total lack of documentation and frustrating amounts of searching and finding dead/unanswered fourm and stackoverflow posts.