Electron app file size too big / Alternatives to Electron

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  • webview

    Tiny cross-platform webview library for C/C++. Uses WebKit (GTK/Cocoa) and Edge WebView2 (Windows).

  • Tauri’s core is (or at least was) basically webview. You’d have to find a good way to package your js/html files into the binary (which is trivial in golang using ‘embed’ and can be easily done as a build step with make/cmake/etc if you go the c/c++ route). It doesn’t use node as a backend, which means you’ll have to do any backend logic in one of the supported languages, but the binaries that is produces are absolutely tiny. And it’s capable of producing cross-platform builds which is a huge plus

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