But, but... you get to run Facebook binaries on your desktop computer! Comes with a full access to everything, so it must be very exciting for at least one party involved.

I previously created my own "native" app from this by wrapping https://web.whatsapp.com in an Electron wrapper so that I could have WhatsApp live separate from the browser, with it's own Dock icon.

Some ways in which the official app is better: * The official app extends to the edges of the window, whereas the web app has a "window on a background" design, which takes up more space. * The official app has keyboard shortcuts. * The official app has better notifications.

I discovered https://github.com/stonesam92/ChitChat

A couple weeks ago. One thing it does better than the official app is that on Mac the red window button hides the window rather than terminating the process.

We used to do this with Fluid.app in the naughties.

I'm doing this currently with Chrome Apps.