DeskGap VS clipper

I've never tried it but DeskGap lets you build a desktop app like Electron, but it uses your existing installed version of Chrome instead of bundling it's own Chrome engine inside the app so it keeps it much more lightweight. Might be interesting for you https://deskgap.com/

> I kind of wonder why it took this long for someone to try this approach. It just makes a whole lot more sense on the surface.

Like other replies have mentioned, it's not a new idea

DeskGap uses the native OS Webviews. https://github.com/patr0nus/DeskGap/

Electrino (4 years old) was an experiment where they forked Electron and removed Chromium to replace it with the native OS Web views. https://github.com/pojala/electrino

Quark is a fork of Electrino: https://github.com/jscherer92/Quark

There's also a way of building desktop GUIs using Deno, which uses Deno Webview, which is a binding for the same webview library that Tauri uses.

https://denotutorials.net/making-desktop-gui-applications-us...

I've performed a couple experiments remaking Electron apps using Sciter.

My first target was https://github.com/AkashRajpurohit/clipper, a neat little clipboard manager. The owner was gratious enough to officially list my project under the "Clones" section of his readme =D The result was a 6mb file, compared to the original 165mb Electron app.

The second attempt was https://github.com/girkovarpa/temps-lite, an aesthetically-pleasing weather app which was motivated largely by the fact that the original was broken and abandoned yet still had people who wanted to use it. According to the open issues and forks trying to resurrect it, anyway. The file size savings were similar to the former, and they start virtually instantly. The Electron apps have a bit of delay and then a blank window before they finish starting up.