Spotify Desktop is kinda different from the website because of how it uses APIs locally to control things https://engineering.atspotify.com/2021/04/07/building-

Spotify Desktop is kinda different from the website because of how it uses APIs locally to control things https://engineering.atspotify.com/2021/04/07/building-the-future-of-our-desktop-apps/ https://engineering.atspotify.com/2021/04/07/building-the-fu... VSCode is also appreciably different both in capability and implementation, https://franz-ajit.medium.com/understanding-visual-studio-code-architecture-5fc411fca07 https://franz-ajit.medium.com/understanding-visual-studio-co... but interesting that V8 debug protocol is becoming more common, so maybe that will come to a browser some day :)