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Re:Electron: The Bad Parts by pier25 on Saturday September 16, 2017 @12:29PM (#15265328)
There is a project that actually does something in those lines.

https://github.com/nodekit-io/nodekit

Instead of embedding a browser engine and Node in each application, it uses the available ones in the platform it's running.

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Re:Electron: The Bad Parts by styfle on Sunday September 17, 2017 @12:11AM (#15268186)
Another similar project to use the available browser on the user's current platform:

https://github.com/pojala/electrino

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Re:Electron: The Bad Parts by api on Saturday September 16, 2017 @02:18PM (#15265837)
Then you'll get weird errors. Everyone distributes the whole universe because it just works. Docker is the same idea for services.
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Re:Electron: The Bad Parts by tentaTherapist on Sunday September 17, 2017 @01:06PM (#15270557)
And you fix these errors as they arise, adding platform-specific hacks to the library as necessary. Your product still ends up much smaller and better-performing than the others.
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