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> don't require you to ship a browser with your application The key feature of Neutralino (as opposed to Electron) is that it does _not_ require you to ship a

> don't require you to ship a browser with your application The key feature of Neutralino (as opposed to Electron) is that it does _not_ require you to ship a browser - it provides similar developer UX to Electron, but it uses your system's existing browser so binaries are dramatically smaller (2MB for hello world) and memory overhead is minimal (~3MB for hello world).

alexvoda 5y ago
> but it uses your system's existing browser According to (1) that is incorrect. It uses WebKitGTK+. (1) https://github.com/Elanis/web-to-desktop-framework-comparison https://github.com/Elanis/web-to-desktop-framework-compariso...
- sdflhasjd 5y ago
  Looks like that is a simplification, error, or outdated. Neutralinojs says: "Neutralinojs doesn't bundle Chromium and uses the existing web browser library in the operating system (Eg: gtk-webkit2 on Linux)" Skimming through the source code, it appears to use WebView2 on Windows - which is Edge.
  - brabel 5y ago
    It's the same approach as Tauri then? Except of course, Tauri has Rust in the "backend".