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I'm not sure, to be honest. Google Docs local technology feels more like something made to supplement their online web apps. What I'm making is for more for loc
by robenkleene 7y ago
I'm not sure, to be honest. Google Docs local technology feels more like something made to supplement their online web apps. What I'm making is for more for local apps that don't have an online component. I guess that's the distinction, and it seems that a different set of uses cases emerge from that focus. To give an example, would you use the Chrome app technology Google Docs uses to install a web-base Git client? That particular example gets covered by Electron, which I also have overlap with. But Electron feels heavy for a lot of uses cases. This is why I always come back to text editors, web browsers, and terminals, these are all apps where people make a host of small customizations to fit their needs, I want an app like that that's based on a web rendering engine (and that isn't already a text editor or a terminal like VS Code or Hyper). I.e., what I'm making is more something you'd rig up to solve your problems by installing some plugins and customizations rather than a full-blown app development platform like Electron or Chrome apps.