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And now try to get either to work mobile, or in a browser, or at least try to share frontend code between them. That's where electron shines, and all the "class
by creshal 3y ago
And now try to get either to work mobile, or in a browser, or at least try to share frontend code between them. That's where electron shines, and all the "classic" frameworks really don't. QtQuick and JavaFX kiiiind of work for at least some platforms, but it's fairly rough all considered, even compared to the inelegant brute force solution of electron.
I'd put my money on the competing "electron, but smarter" solutions that keep bubbling up, rather than any language-centric framework.
- pdntspa 3y agoI hate that we are completely enamored with browsers. Desktop apps and browser webapps are different platforms, with different methodologies and motifs. I hate hate hate it when a desktop app looks and acts like a web app.
- collaborative 3y agoI wish that CodenameOne could have been the norm instead of Electron. Unfortunatrly, its desktop port never matched its mobile one in terms of functionality (still uses JavaFX for web views). I still prefer it over Electron where web views are not required i.e. nowhere