Elanis/web-to-desktop-framework-comparison
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An objective comparison of multiple frameworks that allow us to "transform" our web apps to desktop applications.
13 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 1 story, 12 comments · first 2022-02-07 · latest 2026-02-22
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Seems pretty sensible! I always wonder how those established Electron codebases would map over to something that uses the system specific WebViews and how broken (or not) those would prove to be: https://wails.io https://tauri.app But…
comment by KronisLV · 2026-02-22 · in Why is Claude an Electron app? -
My current project uses Wails and a previous one used Tauri. I like Tauri a bit more but not enough to justify porting Go code to Rust. The primary difference I run into is how the JS <-> native interface is exposed, but this is very…
comment by TACIXAT · 2025-11-29 · in Electron vs. Tauri -
Here's a great comparison, updated two weeks ago. https://github.com/Elanis/web-to-desktop-framework-compariso... Electron comes out looking competitive at runtime! IMO people over-fixate on disc space instead of runtime memory usage.…
comment by taroth · 2025-05-28 · in Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust -
> it's still a far cry from your ~200 Mb Electron hello world. I think that projects that ship packaged web apps but attempt to use the system native web views where available are really nice, like Wails: https://wails.io/ (so for example,…
comment by KronisLV · 2025-05-12 · in Lazarus Release 4.0 -
> That does help with the app sizes quite a bit: https://github.com/Elanis/web-to-desktop-framework-compariso... Interesting resource, thanks! Was not expecting the start up values for Tauri, they're abysmal ._. Welp, at least the…
comment by Tmpod · 2025-02-05 · in Servo's progress in 2024 -
I mean, most OSes already ship with a WebView component that you can use instead of shipping an entire browser runtime. Wails does that: https://wails.io/ Tauri also does that: https://tauri.app/ That does help with the app sizes quite a…
comment by KronisLV · 2025-02-05 · in Servo's progress in 2024 -
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Web to Desktop Framework Comparisonstory by thunderbong · 2023-09-21 · 0 comments
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Why is this better than just using Dart/Flutter? The introduction docs also claim "In Electron and NWjs, you have to install Node.js and hundreds of dependency libraries. Embedded Chromium and Node make simple apps bloaty. Neutralinojs…
comment by alpos · 2023-04-26 · in Neutralinojs – Build lightweight cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript -
not for nothing... but from their comparison chart, it looks like .Net Maui is the better option: https://github.com/Elanis/web-to-desktop-framework-compariso...
comment by thrownaway561 · 2023-04-26 · in Neutralinojs – Build lightweight cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript -
I looked into some alternatives a while back [1] and thought Neutralino looked promising except that it doesn't support node modules. I.e. you cannot use the existing ecosystem of node-stuff. Still, glad there are many options for using…
comment by iansinnott · 2023-04-26 · in Neutralinojs – Build lightweight cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript -
They link a comparison: https://github.com/Elanis/web-to-desktop-framework-compariso... By those numbers it compares remarkably will against Tauri.
comment by mkl · 2023-04-26 · in Neutralinojs – Build lightweight cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript -
and https://neutralino.js.org/ Their exciting part is > You can extend Neutralinojs with any programming language (via extensions IPC) and use Neutralinojs as a part of any source file (via child processes IPC). still: > Neutralinojs…
comment by vindarel · 2022-08-22 · in Tauri vs. Electron – Real world application -
> but it uses your system's existing browser According to (1) that is incorrect. It uses WebKitGTK+. (1) https://github.com/Elanis/web-to-desktop-framework-compariso...
comment by alexvoda · 2022-02-07