graderjs VS Godello

This is very polished and cool looking. Inspiring. I find this project's level of polish very inspiring.

It's lovely to see someone has captured this idea and expressed it in the right way to make it interesting to many people. I really hope this mode of desktop apps can take off, at least to the level where the community has something to explore for a while to see if it works. I made something like this for Chrome browsers a while ago, nodejs backends, vanilla front-ends, built-in packaging using pkg. It's just a nice approach: https://github.com/dosyago/graderjs

And I made a demo using the venerable MS Paint clone JS Paint^0. The dev experience was great, I literally just dropped in the front-end code to the right folder, compiled it and wham, "desktop JS paint" on 3 platforms, haha.

Using the ubiquitous local browser as the rendering / API engine for desktop just seems smart. And it's technically interesting, because you get to think in terms of how can you step back from the browser, the platform, the front-end and the back-end and come up with a general API that addresses all of it, which is kinda cool.

0: https://github.com/00000o1/jspaint.exe

Client / Server Web App: Node.JS, Bang.html[0], the filesystem

Native downloadable executable desktop GUI application: Node.JS, GraderJS

CLI app: ??? Don't know yet, GraderJS can work but it's focused around GUI

Mobile app: ??? Don't know yet

Embedded: ??? Don't know yet

Graphics: Processing (but surely there are much better options nowadays)

AI: ??? Don't know yet

[0]: https://github.com/crisdosyago/bang.html/

[1]: https://github.com/crisdosyago/graderjs/

I'm working on an alternative. It's a slightly different take, but provides similar functionality of Node.js plus front end code in a packaged binary. Instead of using a weird custom fork of chrome and downloading that for every different binary we just use the system Chrome browser (or install it once for all apps). Eventually we can probably expand to use other Chrome browsers or even other web driver supported browsers which Firefox seems to be building that support out. I just like the idea of using something that's already on the system.

Take a look at the wonderful GraderJS, heh :)

https://github.com/crisdosyago/graderjs

For those who didn't reach the end of the README.md, it seems to use an electron-alternative called grader, from the same author:

https://github.com/i5ik/graderjs

It runs server and downloads Chrome (if not available already) and starts it in app mode.

It is a good idea but it is not a new idea

the interesting history of these sorts of frameworks is that Google actually created a framework that did this and stopped development on it. the code is still on GitHub. And there's a bunch of other frameworks that use a variety of different languages not just rust as the application language that also have this idea of not bundling chromium but instead using the system webview for rendering HTML and JavaScript.

You can find a bunch of different approaches in lists like "alternatives to electron." There's some on GitHub.

I took a slightly different approach where instead of using the system web view which I thought you know is going to be inconsistent across systems and it's not going to support the latest HTML JavaScript and security features I used the assumption that the user already has chrome installed which works in a high number of cases or can download and install it if that's not the case. predictably I suppose some people express to satisfaction that it was not using Firefox. using Firefox becomes more possible and more likely I suppose as firefox's support for the dev tools protocol achieves parity with chrome support for that.

https://github.com/c9fe/graderjs

? Godello https://github.com/alfredbaudisch/Godello

Yeah that is my point I am struggling with. Flutter is a viable solution especially I know it does what I want. But look at this: https://github.com/alfredbaudisch/Godello and check out the Godot Editor screenshots. This stuff runs in Web, Desktop and Mobile and even on the Switch (which I do not need).

Godello

Or https://github.com/alfredbaudisch/Godello But inside of a project would actually be nice too

For desktop and mobile apps, it could work.

For example, here is kanban PoC made by someone:

https://github.com/alfredbaudisch/Godello

But for web, that could be too much for browsers to handle. Godello loading at webbrowser has only some time watching at spinner, when you have fast Internet connection, loading about 10 MB of code, WASM etc.

But when I tried to save Godot 3D game example to HTML5, and load it to webbrowser, Chromium etc browsers can not handle that much data.

Some webbrowser users have slow connections. If there are many users, they start to complain webpages loading too slowly. With Godot everything is browserside, and generated with save button, from that it's hard to move anything to serverside.

But if you instead code frontend and backend with Javascript, it's possible to move more of frontend Javascript code to run serverside.

My project Godello is a clone of Trello made with Godot, which makes use of everything available in Godot regarding UIs and it has a database of boards, lists and cards: https://github.com/alfredbaudisch/Godello

Godello. Trello inspired kanban board, powered by an online real-time collaborative backend. Opensource. https://github.com/alfredbaudisch/Godello

Check my other Godot UI project, Godello: https://github.com/alfredbaudisch/Godello

Interesting, I never had problem with that. Which OS are you using? I received reports that on MacOS even 3.4 and 4.0 have blurry fonts. Can you run this to see if it's blurry for you? https://github.com/alfredbaudisch/Godello