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I wonder if there is a use-case for a simplified lightweight edition of Electron that uses the system webviews instead of Chromium. Obviously this would be muc
by Humphrey 9y ago
I wonder if there is a use-case for a simplified lightweight edition of Electron that uses the system webviews instead of Chromium.
Obviously this would be much less capable, require cross platform testing, and limit node usage. But for a project like this that barely does anything fancy in the front-end, it would solve the size and memory issues.
- LeoNatan25 9y agoTaking a WebKit2 webview should give you enough benefit. But for some reason they chose Chrome.
- roryisok 9y agoI've often wondered this. You could write a set of generic webview based apps (say, Windows 10 and MacOS to start) and a small js library that would allow cross platform access to low level apis, even just a few at first like file dialogs. React native is sort of like this.