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Do you really need Electron for this? I would implement what you describe in a headless Python (which is native to YouTube-dl and where YouTube-dl itself is ava

Do you really need Electron for this? I would implement what you describe in a headless Python (which is native to YouTube-dl and where YouTube-dl itself is available as a library) script.

db48x 5y ago
I just use a shell script.
IggleSniggle 5y ago
For a frontend dev, it makes sense to use Electron for personal projects of this variety. You don’t need to learn another language, or even another set of tools, you just build the whole thing in-browser and get a shareable UI to boot. Personally, I’m partial to the command line and to a lesser extent, TUIs, but I certainly understand building with whatever is most convenient and/or fun to the dev…especially on a personal project!
- iKlsR 5y ago
  Full stack dev here, I work with c++ and other langs often and do work with web tech for clients, dcc scripts and plugins etc. This took me a few hours with electron because it's just js and I don't want a crummy cli, tui or generic gui look, I want something with batteries included that's easy to style, quick to add new functionality if needed (npm) and looks GOOD besides this isn't for anyone but me.
q-rews 5y ago
Do you really need Python for this? I would implement what you describe in SwiftUI (which is native to my OS) code. I don’t understand what you care for other people’s personal projects. Not everyone knows your favorite language.
- qwerty456127 5y ago
  Python is not my favorite language. It's a basic language youtube-dl itself is implemented in. I would say bash but bash is hard. Even if I were an excavator driver I would still use an ordinary shovel for a personal project of planting flowers in my garden.
  - iKlsR 5y ago
    You're constraining yourself to a language for no good reason. With your logic, we'd all be writing C. Communicating with ytdl from any other language via a library or even a process call is rather trivial so just it being written in python is already a non reason. I chose js a la electron because I needed a nice gui I could style and add user friendly interactions with minimal work to amongst several other reasons, the aim was to have a nice way to browse my archive and track what goes in, not create new work. If I just wanted videos I could easily have done this with a script, a browser extension or any of the zillion ytdl variants available. By just scaffolding a new project I had already met a lot of requirements, easily embeddable iframes, no external video player, instant search (fusejs) and the list goes on. This is also my first electron project and first time using it so go figure, heh. Also funnily enough the first quick draft of this was in python using qt and lived in my taskbar tray which served a simple html page and ran in the background but it wasn't fun to use and required a lot more work rather than just mindlessly pulling down packages to use in a fun side project.

Do you really need Electron for this? I would implement what you describe in a headless Python (which is native to YouTube-dl and where YouTube-dl itself is available as a library) script.

db48x 5y ago

I just use a shell script.

IggleSniggle 5y ago

For a frontend dev, it makes sense to use Electron for personal projects of this variety. You don’t need to learn another language, or even another set of tools, you just build the whole thing in-browser and get a shareable UI to boot. Personally, I’m partial to the command line and to a lesser extent, TUIs, but I certainly understand building with whatever is most convenient and/or fun to the dev…especially on a personal project!

iKlsR 5y ago
Full stack dev here, I work with c++ and other langs often and do work with web tech for clients, dcc scripts and plugins etc. This took me a few hours with electron because it's just js and I don't want a crummy cli, tui or generic gui look, I want something with batteries included that's easy to style, quick to add new functionality if needed (npm) and looks GOOD besides this isn't for anyone but me.

q-rews 5y ago

Do you really need Python for this? I would implement what you describe in SwiftUI (which is native to my OS) code. I don’t understand what you care for other people’s personal projects. Not everyone knows your favorite language.

qwerty456127 5y ago
Python is not my favorite language. It's a basic language youtube-dl itself is implemented in. I would say bash but bash is hard. Even if I were an excavator driver I would still use an ordinary shovel for a personal project of planting flowers in my garden.
- iKlsR 5y ago
  You're constraining yourself to a language for no good reason. With your logic, we'd all be writing C. Communicating with ytdl from any other language via a library or even a process call is rather trivial so just it being written in python is already a non reason. I chose js a la electron because I needed a nice gui I could style and add user friendly interactions with minimal work to amongst several other reasons, the aim was to have a nice way to browse my archive and track what goes in, not create new work. If I just wanted videos I could easily have done this with a script, a browser extension or any of the zillion ytdl variants available. By just scaffolding a new project I had already met a lot of requirements, easily embeddable iframes, no external video player, instant search (fusejs) and the list goes on. This is also my first electron project and first time using it so go figure, heh. Also funnily enough the first quick draft of this was in python using qt and lived in my taskbar tray which served a simple html page and ran in the background but it wasn't fun to use and required a lot more work rather than just mindlessly pulling down packages to use in a fun side project.