Here's the thing though: You could build this in pure Node and call Windows APIs, Qt, etc and it'd be much, much smaller. But everyone just goes ahead and pull

Here's the thing though: You could build this in pure Node and call Windows APIs, Qt, etc and it'd be much, much smaller. But everyone just goes ahead and pulls in Chrome. It's shameful, and the worst part is that I get it - at this point I'm suggesting we go to Electron for a new application at work because it seems like the best maintained UI frameworks with readily available 3rd party components are all web based.