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Desktop runtime for apps built on web technologies, using the system's own web browser engine

22 mentions on Hacker News by 18 people: 2 stories, 20 comments · first 2017-05-02 · latest 2024-11-21

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  1. …a yet another webview-based framework like NeutralinoJS ( https://neutralino.js.org ), Electrino ( https://github.com/pojala/electrino ) or DeskGap ( https://deskgap.com )? What's their advantage apart from using Bun instead of Node? For…
    comment by niutech · 2024-11-21 · in Electrobun: Cross-platform desktop applications written in TypeScript
  2. Electrino, but looks abandoned: https://github.com/pojala/electrino
    comment by slater · 2021-02-19 · in Tauri: An Electron alternative written in Rust
  3. …where they forked Electron and removed Chromium to replace it with the native OS Web views. https://github.com/pojala/electrino Quark is a fork of Electrino: https://github.com/jscherer92/Quark There's also a way of building desktop GUIs…
    comment by flanbiscuit · 2021-02-19 · in Tauri: An Electron alternative written in Rust
  4. Check out: nodegui ( https://github.com/nodegui/nodegui ), electrino ( https://github.com/pojala/electrino ) or muban ( https://github.com/yue/muban ).
    comment by niutech · 2020-08-28 · in C++ Lightweight, cross-platform, HTML rendering engine for desktop apps
  5. …traction. Deskgap is probably the most mature of them, relatively speaking. https://deskgap.com/ https://github.com/pojala/electrino https://github.com/jscherer92/Quark
    comment by Wowfunhappy · 2020-03-28 · in The iOS and Mac markets are almost the same size?
  6. Sharing this as another alternative, unfortunately unmaintained: https://github.com/pojala/electrino
    comment by mwnivek · 2020-02-26 · in NeutralinoJS: Lightweight Electron alternative using native browser controls
  7. There was Electrino a couple of years ago but it looks dead. https://github.com/pojala/electrino
    comment by 91edec · 2019-11-18 · in WebWindow, a cross-platform webview library for .NET Core
  8. …this idea of using native OS engines but they seem to just be side projects and/or experiments. [1] https://github.com/pojala/electrino [2] https://github.com/jscherer92/Quark
    comment by flanbiscuit · 2019-04-08 · in Chromium-based Edge preview builds
  9. …squoosh[3] into a desktop app[4] with DeskGap, and successfully submitted it to the app stores. [0] https://github.com/pojala/electrino [1] https://github.com/jscherer92/Quark [2] https://deskgap.com/#faq [3] https://squoosh.app [4]…
    comment by patr0nus · 2019-02-13 · in Show HN: DeskGap – Like Electron, but uses the system webview
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    Ask HN: How to optimize Electron apps?
    story by azhenley · 2018-12-27 · 19 comments
  11. …and and Electrino[2] that do this with branding APIs. [1] https://github.com/jscherer92/Quark [2] https://github.com/pojala/electrino
    comment by mohsen1 · 2018-11-01 · in Carlo – Web rendering surface for Node applications
  12. https://github.com/pojala/electrino is electron alternative that uses the system's own web browser engine.
    comment by ducaale · 2018-09-20 · in ReactXP – A library for building cross-platform apps
  13. …native app development a lot but I do miss some of what you get from working with JS and React. [0] https://github.com/pojala/electrino
    comment by ljm · 2018-06-21 · in Electron 3.0.0-beta.1 – Chrome 66 and Node 10
  14. It's very early and certainly not production ready, but this is the idea behind Electrino ( https://github.com/pojala/electrino )
    comment by Willamin · 2018-05-25 · in Show HN: Chromely – Lightweight Alternative to Electron for .NET and .NET Core
  15. A project with that idea is Electrino: https://github.com/pojala/electrino It provides an electron-like API but uses the OS version of safari. It doesn't seem to be actively developed anymore though.
    comment by kilian · 2018-02-22 · in Electron 2.0.0 beta
  16. …and there are even approaches to get JS on the desktop with less memory consumption than Electron. https://github.com/pojala/electrino https://www.nidium.com/
    comment by k__ · 2017-12-07 · in Qt 5.10 released
  17. …enough you should be able to run the Node app as a UWP background app and use UWP remoting. [1] https://github.com/pojala/electrino [2] https://www.npmjs.com/package/electron-windows-store
    comment by WorldMaker · 2017-09-21 · in Upterm – A terminal emulator and interactive shell based on Electron
  18. Another similar project to use the available browser on the user's current platform: https://github.com/pojala/electrino
    comment by styfle · 2017-09-17 · in Electron: The Bad Parts
  19. It does make sense, not a lot of people seem to be interested though - https://github.com/pojala/electrino
    comment by type0 · 2017-08-17 · in Draw.io releases open source desktop versions
  20. …which provides the Electron api but runs whatever your OS's built-in rendering engine is: https://github.com/pojala/electrino Still in development and relatively limited, but the idea's there!
    comment by kilian · 2017-07-25 · in Stylo shipping in Firefox Nightly
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    Show HN: Electrino, a featherweight API-compatible alternative to Electron
    story by pavlov · 2017-05-03 · 29 comments
  22. Well, why wait. I made a repo for "Electrino": https://github.com/pojala/electrino Sorry, it's totally empty! But I'm hoping to get around to making a Cocoa+WebKit proof-of-concept this week. I guess the starting point would be to…
    comment by pavlov · 2017-05-02 · in Ask HN: Do you think Electron is good for building Desktop Apps?