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Electron | Vieb | |
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236 | 62 | |
111,866 | 1,249 | |
1.0% | - | |
9.8 | 9.1 | |
about 3 hours ago | 24 days ago | |
C++ | JavaScript | |
MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Electron
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Release Radar • February 2024 Edition
The team at Electron have been faithfully shipping new releases almost every single month. I think they had Christmas off 🤔. This popular framework has developers writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. The latest update depreciates some process events, and added new modules, APIs, methods, and more. Read into all the changes in the Electron release notes. This month, Electron also introduced a new formal RFC process.
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The IDEs we had 30 years ago and we lost
VS Code has been crashing at launch in Wayland since more than eight months ago:
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Design Systems with Web Components
So we talked a lot about the Atomic Design Principle, but you could just use that in any system and start creating. You could have Angular components, React Components, and Vue Components. But if you notice these don't easily work Everwhere. So the solution is to use Web Components because the modern browser can already understand these, and any Front-End framework can then utilize these components. You can use Electron for desktop (Slack, VSCode), PWA for both Android and iOS, and across all browsers Can I Use.
- Settings · Rulesets · electron/electron
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How I got Wayland, Vulkan, and hardware acceleration working with Figma on Fedora 39.
I'm noticing a significant boost in performance, crisper text, and better power savings. The only shortcoming is that the window which Figma will run on will lose its shadow. This is due to a technical limitation with frameless windows on Linux.
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Building Apps with Tauri and Elixir
For the longest time, building desktop apps was a daunting task to web developers. That is, until technologies like Electron made creating these apps more approachable to a wider audience. Today, we’ve got a wide array of native applications built with solutions like Electron, Tauri, Capacitor, and many more. While these are great solutions, sometimes configuration can be tricky and the applications we create can become somewhat bloated in terms of memory usage.
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MS Teams & Electron libwebp 0-Day Vulnerability
Electron patch for version 27: https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/39823
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CVE-2023-4863: Heap buffer overflow in WebP (Chrome)
It does, see [0]. Fun fact: Signal desktop, which uses Electron under the hood, is running without sandbox on Linux [1][2].
[0] https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/39824
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Capturing at Speed of Thought
Turns out, there is an issue with the electron window not returning focus correctly on mac - https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/5495. The trick to solving is to treat quick capture as a screensaver. When closing, you hide it by setting the opacity to 0 and sending hide: command to the first responder.
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$Home, Not So Sweet $Home
Open since 2016! https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/8124
Vieb
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Pick my next browser for the next 3 months.
Vieb Browser because it is keyboard based and very easy to move around the interface.
- Vieb: Vim-like web-browser using Electron
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Is there a way to get the current data folder?
If you know the names of the folders in advance it's possible to make a different mapping in each of the folders to load a different file per datafolder but with the same keys. There is no variable system in Vieb, and as such there are no commands that will need or use the datafolder as an argument. This specific question would best be solved by a proper bookmark system which would load a file from the datafolder anyway, without having to build this in manually. Work on this has started some time ago, but has recently stalled: https://github.com/Jelmerro/Vieb/pull/391 If you or anyone else is up to the task feel free to pick this up again, as I don't use bookmarks at all so it's of little use to me personally, and as such have bigger priority tickets to work on in Vieb most of the time.
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What software would you like to see ported?
Please could you port Vieb? It's the only browser that really works on my old ThinkPad!
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Double click to copy texts.
First one is related to and blocked by https://github.com/Jelmerro/Vieb/issues/257
- Any of the terminal web browsers supporting custom per-website styles?
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Vieb 9.0.0: chromium 104, faster explore + follow mode, darkreader blocklist, userstyles for custom css, markdownviewer, (quick)marks for scrolling urls & pointer, smaller builds, containernames for same tab, removed extension support, lots of bugfixes
Download the latest release from vieb.dev or github. View the changelog for details. And check the FAQ for answers to frequently asked questions and startup help.
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A way to hide the scrollbar completely + darkreader takes a sec to apply darkmode..
For the time being you can keep using the extension, but once 9.0.0 is released extension support will indeed be removed. To modify the styling, you can use the new "userstyle" setting to inject custom styling into any page, the relevant commit is here. Once that version is released you can find the help for it with :help userstyle, though that isn't in any released version yet (You can always build it yourself to get it early).
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Will Vieb support extensions in future?
In the current releases there is experimental support for it, but this will be dropped soon due to the lack of compatibility. Instead I will focus my efforts towards integrating commonly requested features, which has started with the integration of sponsorblock and darkreader. So unless by a miracle somebody will contribute a working extension integration, full extension support is not something Vieb will have. You can find more info on Github, and also suggest extensions you want to be in Vieb: https://github.com/Jelmerro/Vieb/issues/385
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Vieb 8.0.0: chromium 102, performance and security improvements, add source viewer, add readerview, better adblocking, support prompts (and block dialogs), custom useragents, bugfixes for: follow labels, composing keyboards, url encoding and much more
Extensions are hard, and the current implementation is as far as I can personally make them work, which is sadly not good enough. I'm considering dropping support altogether and implementing major ones into Vieb (such as some sort of darkreader). Extensions are such a daunting task that even implementing multiple extensions from scratch seems easier than trying to make all of them work as proper extensions, this is also the approach used for the new sourceviewer and reader view (both of which use package to render the views, but are still integrated into Vieb as if a native part of it). The current progress of making extensions work is tracked in this ticket: https://github.com/Jelmerro/Vieb/issues/130, but it's been stuck at basic extensions (such as dark reader) without GUI for a while, and even those fail to install occasionally for the most obscure and random reasons, it's just not very stable at all.
What are some alternatives?
tauri - Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.
qutebrowser - A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on Python and Qt.
dotenv - Loads environment variables from .env for nodejs projects.
luakit - Fast, small, webkit based browser framework extensible by Lua.
Eel - A little Python library for making simple Electron-like HTML/JS GUI apps
browser - A drop-in web browser block
puppeteer - Node.js API for Chrome
qutebrowser - A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on PyQt5.
react-native - A framework for building native applications using React
vimium-c - A keyboard shortcut browser extension for keyboard-based navigation and tab operations with an advanced omnibar
cheerio - The fast, flexible, and elegant library for parsing and manipulating HTML and XML.
Surfingkeys - Map your keys for web surfing, expand your browser with javascript and keyboard.