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| DeskGap | remarkable | |
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| 3 | 5 | |
| 1,824 | 5,667 | |
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| 0.0 | 3.9 | |
| about 3 years ago | 5 months ago | |
| C++ | JavaScript | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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DeskGap
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I have created a home cloud project, for sharing files across your devices on the same network. Please do check it out and star it if you like the project. There are more features yet to come which I have planned. Thank you
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/
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Tauri: An Electron alternative written in Rust
> 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...
remarkable
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Sciter, the 5 MB Electron alternative, has switched to JavaScript
> we can't take some well-tested, used-by-millions library
You can.
Here is an example of Sciter application that uses RemarkableJS library (https://github.com/jonschlinkert/remarkable) as it is:
https://quark.sciter.com/quark-application-samples/hello-mar...
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BREAKING!! NPM package ‘ua-parser-js’ with more than 7M weekly download is compromised
Since then they've made things that are IMO quite useful, like enquirer, micromatch, and remarkable.
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Sciter officially switched to JavaScript
mdview (sources) uses RemarkableJS for MD->HTML conversion.
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Tauri: An Electron alternative written in Rust
will give you split-view out-of-the-box. But web dev's will start looking for frameworks in order to achieve this simple task that browser have internally already.
TL;DR: Web and desktop UIs use inherently different models. You can share parts between these two different platforms but only parts, really.
[1] Remarkable JS: https://github.com/jonschlinkert/remarkable
What are some alternatives?
neutralinojs - Portable and lightweight cross-platform desktop application development framework
showdown - A bidirectional Markdown to HTML to Markdown converter written in Javascript
memoryjs - Read and write process memory in Node.js (Windows API functions exposed via Node bindings)
ua-parser-js - UAParser.js - Free & open-source JavaScript library to detect user's Browser, Engine, OS, CPU, and Device type/model. Runs either in browser (client-side) or node.js (server-side).
wry - Cross-platform WebView library in Rust for Tauri.
sciter-js-sdk - Sciter.JS - Sciter but with QuickJS on board instead of my TIScript
graderjs - 💦 Turn your full-stack NodeJS application into a downloadable cross-platform binary. Also works for SPAs, or regular web-sites.
react-markdown - Markdown component for React [Moved to: https://github.com/remarkjs/react-markdown]
Wails - Create beautiful applications using Go
html-react-parser - 📝 HTML to React parser.
revery - :zap: Native, high-performance, cross-platform desktop apps - built with Reason!
enquirer - Stylish, intuitive and user-friendly prompts, for Node.js. Used by eslint, webpack, yarn, pm2, pnpm, RedwoodJS, FactorJS, salesforce, Cypress, Google Lighthouse, Generate, tencent cloudbase, lint-staged, gluegun, hygen, hardhat, AWS Amplify, GitHub Actions Toolkit, @airbnb/nimbus, and many others! Please follow Enquirer's author: https://github.com/jonschlinkert