Web apps can now have an icon on the desktop, their own top level windows, etc. That's what PWAs are all about. A few years ago I wrote a framework for daemon-

Web apps can now have an icon on the desktop, their own top level windows, etc. That's what PWAs are all about. A few years ago I wrote a framework for daemon-based native/browser apps: https://github.com/jdarpinian/web-ui-skeleton https://github.com/jdarpinian/web-ui-skeleton. I used it for a benchmark that I wrote: https://google.github.io/latency-benchmark/ https://google.github.io/latency-benchmark/ This approach is underused for sure.