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I'm currently working on an app built with Electron app. One thing I love is not to have to worry about whether the APIs I'm using are supported by the browser,
by ronyfadel 7y ago
I'm currently working on an app built with Electron app. One thing I love is not to have to worry about whether the APIs I'm using are supported by the browser, since the browser is packaged inside the app. (if it works on my machine, it has a decent chance or working well on my users' machines).
The perf overhead (memory, bundle size) is big, but it's not stopping anyone from shipping Electron apps (Visual Studio Code, Slack, WhatsApp, etc..).
A nice to have compromise would be to have currently running Chromium Electron instances to host newly launched Electron apps, it doesn't solve the bundle size issue, but at least solves memory bloat and the number of Chrome main processes running.