You can use Chrome + NodeJS as the shared runtime instead of Electron, using an approach such as this: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/carlo https://github.

You can use Chrome + NodeJS as the shared runtime instead of Electron, using an approach such as this: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/carlo https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/carlo You still need to bundle a copy of NodeJS with your app if you're not targeting developers, but that's much smaller. Of course, this still has many of the issues that a shared copy of Electron will have - you need to make sure that your app stays compatible as Chrome is updated. The HTML/JS side is typically not an issue, but the devtools protocol that you need for this does get breaking changes now and then.