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kusti8
6y ago
I was pretty active in the Raspberry Pi community around 4 years ago. Playing YouTube easily was a big problem and I tried making a lot of packages to solve this. I would also build Chromium to add widevine support for DRM content. I also h
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kusti8
7y ago
The only thing that meaningfully contributes to the size of the app is the size of the GUI library libraries. It currently bundles both Mac and Windows, so you can build packages for each and remove the libraries you don't need. It sho
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kusti8
7y ago
The library is already built to be largely library agnostic. To add a new library, just add a file that translates my calls to the library calls. This is how I achieved both Qt and wxWidgets backends.
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kusti8
7y ago
The reason I did not add a renderer to React Native and went with my own renderer and reconciler was because mobile and desktop behave differently. The goal of the project is to make sure you can copy almost all your code from React Native,
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kusti8
7y ago
Proton Native is a way to make cross-platform desktop apps with React, without using Electron or any sort of web browser. Your React code gets translated into Qt or wxWidgets API calls and runs directly on the machine. After a long time, Pr
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Show HN: Proton Native V2 – Create Cross Platform Desktop Apps with React
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7y ago
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My Journey on Learning Machine Learning
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8y ago
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kusti8
8y ago
Thanks for the feedback! I'm not a Qt dev, so I wasn't aware of the practices. I'll revise it and remove the Qt code.
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8y ago
Because I forgot. I updated the page. My bad.
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8y ago
Yeah I'll reword that. My bad.
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8y ago
I've tried to improve documentation and make it ready for use. Also all the forks is are platform specific while this is cross platform.
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kusti8
8y ago
I'm one highschooler with not enough time. Ideally this would come from someone who can maintain this full-time like a corporation, but so far no one has done it.
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8y ago
Currently no. That's one thing that I want to test sometime, but right now I'm busy improving it.
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8y ago
Hey. I'm the author. It's hard to find a simple example that everyone understands but can show capabilities. If you're used to Qt then you're going to like Qt better, but I mainly developed this for people who want to us
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kusti8
9y ago
I don't really understand what you mean. To get data from a server, you can just use normal nodejs to send a http request. Usually you'll have it so that it works when a callback is triggered, such as a button press.
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9y ago
Memory usage is a lot less. Electron has a full webbrowser running to display the page, which this uses Gtk on Linux or cocoa on Mac etc.
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kusti8
9y ago
It's not totally ready for production because the GUI library that I'm using is not totally polished. My part I would say is Beta, and the GUI library is versioned as alpha. For most tasks it will work fine. For more complex stuff
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Proton Native – A React environment for cross platform native desktop apps
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9y ago
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A Linux Driver for the Hue+
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10y ago
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