Re:Ask HN: Do you think Electron is good for building Deskto...
by crucialfelix on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @09:49AM
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I am looking forward to more PWA and I agree this would replace most use cases for Electron, but not all.
If it's just a web app (network, localStorage etc) then it would be fine. But if you need to read/write to the user's filesystem or need to include other executables then we can't run that in our browser. We don't want a webbrowser to have any possible path to screwing with your filesystem or running executables.
If it's just a web app (network, localStorage etc) then it would be fine. But if you need to read/write to the user's filesystem or need to include other executables then we can't run that in our browser. We don't want a webbrowser to have any possible path to screwing with your filesystem or running executables.