Qbrt – Cross-platform HTML/JS desktop apps using the Firefox Gecko runtime

Re:Qbrt – Cross-platform HTML/JS desktop apps using the Fire... by jancsika on Saturday July 29, 2017 @09:25PM (#14883906)

There is nw.js:

https://nwjs.io/

I used it to port a frontend for an application that requires multiple toplevel windows and found its API way easier for that particular problem.

Edit: also a rather informative statement by the author on the relationship between nw.js (which used to be node-webkit) and Electron:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/nwjs-general/LIrC7zH...

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Re:Qbrt – Cross-platform HTML/JS desktop apps using the Fire... by pupdogg on Sunday July 30, 2017 @01:17AM (#14884538)

+1 for nw.js...Electron is just a bloated version of nw.js

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Re:Qbrt – Cross-platform HTML/JS desktop apps using the Fire... by roryisok on Sunday July 30, 2017 @02:27AM (#14884671)

Actually I tested both with a hello world app just this week and nw.js used more RAM than electron

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Re:Qbrt – Cross-platform HTML/JS desktop apps using the Fire... by yunyu on Sunday July 30, 2017 @08:48AM (#14885718)

Electron apps display misleading RAM statistics in Task Manager, at least on Windows. There are multiple content processes that you have to compare paths to find.

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