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Neutralinojs – Build lightweight cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript
https://github.com/neutralinojs/evaluation
8MB vs 42MB for electron. That's pretty real savings IMO!
It's also using the existing shared libraries on your system, so there's a very real chance a lot of this 8MB might be ready resident & take zero additional space. It'd be great to see what the memory impact of launching a second & different app would be!
Personally I think the Electron hate is because people think every Electron app behaves as badly as Slack. Honestly 42MB is not that bad. But it hurts my soul that each app has it's own static copy of the browser, means there is zero chance for sharing. If you are running 2-3 apps it's fine but I want a world where we can potentially have dozens or even a hundred little gui apps running & it works fine, no problem. That would be on par with native apps & this is a clear demonstration of one way we could get there.
The missing next step is that this system launches a mini http/websocket server to run. It'd be interesting to explore using a lightweight Sandboxing multi vm to host apps on, might make the server side lighter weight too. Wasm, or cloudflare's workerd... The CRI folk have been busy building support for managing work let like things like this, & desktop could definitely pull some wins, now that folks like Neutralinojs and Tauri are starting to do better at desktop webapps.
- Neutralinojs - Alternativa para o Electron
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Neutralinojs v1.8.0 released! · neutralinojs/neutralinojs
I'd say the lower RAM usage is a bigger deal than the actual app size. Here are some basic comparisons: https://github.com/neutralinojs/evaluation
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"there is currently no plan for PWA support in Firefox." - Mozilla gives up on PWAs in Firefox 85
Side note: There's alternatives to electron that are ultra light weight. Neutralinojs is one I've been keeping an eye on. The proof exists that it's possible to make performant web apps run native.
nw.js
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Linux 6.9 Set to Drop the Old NTFS File-System Driver
> FUSE drivers are slow, but "wildly slow" is an overstatement.
I can confirm this, I've played RPGMaker M{V,Z} games natively by swapping out the copy of NWJS¹ it shipped with and running it through a CIOPFS² mount.
1: https://nwjs.io/
2: https://www.brain-dump.org/projects/ciopfs/ / https://github.com/martanne/ciopfs
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How to play this on a Chromebook through Linux Itch.io
Go to this page to download NW.js https://nwjs.io/.
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Win 7 no longer supported?? Please no!
(Step 7 will not be necessary once https://github.com/nwjs/nw.js/issues/5769 is completed)
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Linux nw.js version of my game very slow, anyone knows a solution to this?
The support for WebGL in NW.js on Linux has been broken since NW.js 0.72.0: https://github.com/nwjs/nw.js/issues/8043
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What would be the current recommended way to publishing an html5 game on steam?
In addition to the other options here you could look at nw.js
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Console Commands, Kill Count And Saving System
I don't think you can access it by default, but crosscode runs on [nw.js](https://nwjs.io). I know there is a way to get the chromium devtools to open, but I haven't been able to.
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DuckieTV not launching
or browse the NWJS home page at https://nwjs.io/
- Notestation mac os client or trojan?
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[AskJS] Are there any Electron alternatives that uses less recourses?
If windows is your target, you can use .hta If Ubuntu is your target, you can use GJS If Mac is your target - well you are going to use something like QT if you need total control or nwjs.io
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Running Node Apps on BrightSign Devices
BrightSign has pretty good docs that explain this. There are a ton of similarities to running NW.js, so it might make sense to check that out as well (https://nwjs.io/). DM me if you have more questions. My team and I have built a few Node applications for BrightSign players.
What are some alternatives?
streamlink-twitch-gui - A multi platform Twitch.tv browser for Streamlink
betaflight-configurator - Cross platform configuration tool for the Betaflight firmware
web-to-desktop-framework-comparison - This repository was made to create an objective comparison of multiple framework that grant us to "transform" our web app to desktop application formats.
neutralinojs - Portable and lightweight cross-platform desktop application development framework
nodegui - A library for building cross-platform native desktop applications with Node.js and CSS 🚀. React NodeGui : https://react.nodegui.org and Vue NodeGui: https://vue.nodegui.org
user-agent-desktop - Ghostery Desktop Browser
greenworks - a node.js plugin to integrate nw.js/electron games with steamworks
sc-controller - User-mode driver and GTK3 based GUI for Steam Controller
tauri - Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.
nw-vue-cli-example - NW.js, Vue-CLI 4, Vue-DevTools
Svelte - Cybernetically enhanced web apps