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Ask HN: Anyone using flutter in favour of electron to build prod desktop apps?
- Anyone using flutter in favour of electron for side projects for desktop apps?
- If so what is your impression especially if you have used both?
- Do you have all that you need out of flutter for desktop that you could have gotten in electron?
- Is it faster to build in flutter or in electron?
- Do you have all the components you need?
- Is there enough support?
- Do you find easily answers in google?
- Do you feel like it's immature?
- Do you regret and wish you used the other?
- In terms of development speed is one 1,2,3X the other?
- Is tooling mature for any?
- For CRUD applications what would you recommend?
- orestesgaolin 7y agoI use Flutter Desktop for my presentations. It's faster to make presentation in Flutter for me. Especially after several presentations already done I have my custom "framework" and a lot of helper methods for animation or transitions. You just need to clone desktop embedding repo and have fun with example. Now with plugins for notifications and file access I think about porting one of password managers to Flutter Desktop. This would take a lot of work but might be a great case for lightweight crossplatform password manager.
- tomerbd 7y agoit's faster for you to make presentations in flutter rather than standard presentation softwares (ppt, google draw etc)? :)
- orestesgaolin 7y agoWhen I have some helper widgets then yes. Some things are really hard to do (e.g. stepping through animations), but other are very easy (responsive layout, so I can present the same file on 4:3, 16:9 or other ratios).
- tomerbd 7y agoInteresting... Do you embeed then the animation in a standard presentation (like PPT or something n like that) if so how?
- orestesgaolin 7y agoNo, everything is done with Flutter