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Re:WKWebView, an Electron alternative on macOS/iOS by izacus on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @09:34AM (#18762304)
Electron also has a lot of hardening features from chromium disabled as is strongly discouraged by Google as unsafe to use for apps.
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Re:WKWebView, an Electron alternative on macOS/iOS by smaddock on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @10:34AM (#18762580)
This seems to be changing as of recently this year. There have been many security-related changes including making options such as Node integration disabled by default [1]. Support for renderer process sandbox is also available [2].

[1] https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/14284

[2] https://electronjs.org/docs/api/sandbox-option

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