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Honestly if you want to go this lightweight I think desktop PWAs are better suited, they’ve been around for 4+ years but are horribly underutilized
by cuuupid 3y ago
Honestly if you want to go this lightweight I think desktop PWAs are better suited, they’ve been around for 4+ years but are horribly underutilized
- seper8 3y agounderutilized? Like the office suite, spotify, discord, teams, vscode...
- realPubkey 3y agoVscode is electron. Discord is react-native.
- ff2400t 3y agoDiscord Desktop is an Electron app with ui based on react, the same ui that you will get on the website. Only the Mobile Apps for Discord are using react-native.
- throwaway290 3y agoMost of those are Electron, not PWAs. PWAs are very rare
- afavour 3y agoAgreed. As much as I dislike the bulk of Electron this feels like the worst of both worlds: you get incompatibilities between different browsers and more difficult installation than with a PWA.
- criddell 3y agoAll of this stuff is only lightweight if Electron is the benchmark.
- smcleod 3y agoExactly. Graphical apps are in such a sad state at present. I know the UIs look fancier, they have ML (sorry "AI"™), etc etc etc but so many of them are gluggy, high latency, JS heavy web frames. Just because you can wrap some web frontend framework around some libraries and take some fancy screenshots of your landing page doesn't make the software good.
- kitsunesoba 3y agoPWAs will likely continue to remain underused on desktop until they gain some important missing bits of desktop integration. For example on macOS, Electron plugs into the global menubar, making it easy for web app devs to give their Mac users native menus instead of falling back to a redundant in-app menubar. Nearly all electron apps on macOS take advantage of this feature, and if they migrated to PWAs they’d lose it. PWAs also lack fine grained control over window chrome which puts them in an awkward twilight zone between browser window and desktop integrated web app.