Proton Native – React Native for the Desktop

Re:Proton Native – React Native for the Desktop by kusti8 on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @07:49PM (#16381022)

It's not totally ready for production because the GUI library that I'm using is not totally polished. My part I would say is Beta, and the GUI library is versioned as alpha. For most tasks it will work fine. For more complex stuff you will obviously want something more robust.

With Windows, the .dll is compiled on npm install, and that works perfectly. Currently I don't think libui supports icons.

I chose libui because it is the only GUI library for JS that I could find. It is nice and fits well with React, but it does have some holes. The author is going to continue development soon, so some of the problems should be fixed in the future.

A MSI can be generated using an installer such as NSIS.

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Re:Proton Native – React Native for the Desktop by wishinghand on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @10:19PM (#16381662)

How is the memory usage compared to Electron?

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Re:Proton Native – React Native for the Desktop by kusti8 on Thursday February 15, 2018 @06:31AM (#16383236)

Memory usage is a lot less. Electron has a full webbrowser running to display the page, which this uses Gtk on Linux or cocoa on Mac etc.

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Re:Proton Native – React Native for the Desktop by wishinghand on Thursday February 15, 2018 @12:49PM (#16385976)

I'd love to see some benchmarks when you have a chance to update it.

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