Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)
by hawski on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @11:16AM
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How many electron apps can run on the same machine? For many of them it can be beneficial to just be a website.
Wouldn't it make sense to run a caching proxy on desktop and use a browser that is already there? That way you could still use some functionality not available to plain websites, like access to computer. But use system browser for rendering. Your proxy would also cache your website so it would run faster than normal website.
I understand, that this way you have to support more browsers, but you probably already have a web version of your app.
The problem could be with users seeing localhost address. How to overcome this issue? Virtual interface on which DNS server could run?
Maybe running from a file:// could be a solution for some apps?
Wouldn't it make sense to run a caching proxy on desktop and use a browser that is already there? That way you could still use some functionality not available to plain websites, like access to computer. But use system browser for rendering. Your proxy would also cache your website so it would run faster than normal website.
I understand, that this way you have to support more browsers, but you probably already have a web version of your app.
The problem could be with users seeing localhost address. How to overcome this issue? Virtual interface on which DNS server could run?
Maybe running from a file:// could be a solution for some apps?