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A comment on Ask HN: Is Electron really that bad for desktop apps?.

Re:Ask HN: Is Electron really that bad for desktop apps? by raspie on Sunday May 06, 2018 @03:33PM (#17007995)
Consider Chromium Embedded Framework, or Sciter. These too let you define your UI with JS/HTML/CSS, but you're not shipping a node.js server with your app, which makes your app much lighter.
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Re:Ask HN: Is Electron really that bad for desktop apps? by zerr on Monday May 07, 2018 @06:13AM (#17011577)
I believe it is Chromium that's the main bloat point in Electron, not the node.js.
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Re:Ask HN: Is Electron really that bad for desktop apps? by SahAssar on Sunday May 06, 2018 @04:23PM (#17008297)
In that case why not just make a webapp?
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Re:Ask HN: Is Electron really that bad for desktop apps? by raquo on Sunday May 06, 2018 @04:28PM (#17008332)
Because you can still have a "backend" hosted on the user's computer, it just doesn't have to be node.js, could be something more efficient or powerful or whatever is needed.
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