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Whenever I find myself wanting to build an app that is electron/chromium/webkit frontend + C++/C#/Rust/Go backend I can never justify it over building a web app
by snarfy 9y ago
Whenever I find myself wanting to build an app that is electron/chromium/webkit frontend + C++/C#/Rust/Go backend I can never justify it over building a web app + web api instead. If you want to run it locally there is a one line docker command to do it.
- filleduchaos 9y agoSometimes I wonder if people on this site realize that there is such a thing as an end user.
- roryisok 9y agoDoesn't the user need to have docker installed to run that one line? That's kind of a big prerequisite
- snarfy 9y agoSince it's a web app, they could go to my hosted site if they can't install it locally. That wouldn't work for the OPs app but it would work for most. The point being there has to be a better way than frankensteining the browser.
- roryisok 9y agoIt depends on what you consider "better". I'd much rather install an electron app than mount and run a docker container, and I say that as a developer who uses docker every single day.