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tauri-vs-electron
Discontinued A comparison of the two frameworks: is Tauri a better choice than electron in 2021?
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SurveyJS
Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.
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InfluxDB
Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
Main advantage is that 400MB apps become more like 10MB. RAM and CPU usage are somewhat improved (webview is usually at least a bit more efficient than chromium), and startup times are a lot faster. Some of this is achieved by using compiled code to do heavy lifting, rather than electron’s JS-based versions. Full comparison here.
Anybody who maintains electron-based apps should look at Tauri. It’s more or less drop in for electron, but uses system webview + gtk so it doesn’t need to ship a full browser.
Or look at ReactOS, which is Windows recreation from scratch and it's also rather small. Almost smaller than average Electron application. Linux also has its own small versions like DSL and Puppy.
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/22900 is just a great example.
There's exactly one non-webapp Electron-based application that I like and use semi-regularly -- Notable, because it has a skilled developer behind it, enough feature improvement to lure me away from KeepNote, and uses standard markdown files, so there's no lock-in to worry about. Every other Electron-based desktop app I've tried has been a fast uninstall.