Ask HN: Anyone using flutter in favour of electron to build prod desktop apps?

Posted by tomerbd on Thursday October 31, 2019 @01:44AM
from the ask-hn dept.

- Anyone using flutter in favour of electron for side projects for desktop apps?

- If so what is your impression especially if you have used both?

- Do you have all that you need out of flutter for desktop that you could have gotten in electron?

- Is it faster to build in flutter or in electron?

- Do you have all the components you need?

- Is there enough support?

- Do you find easily answers in google?

- Do you feel like it's immature?

- Do you regret and wish you used the other?

- In terms of development speed is one 1,2,3X the other?

- Is tooling mature for any?

- For CRUD applications what would you recommend?

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone using flutter in favour of electron to bui... by orestesgaolin on Thursday October 31, 2019 @02:21AM (#21406162)

I use Flutter Desktop for my presentations. It's faster to make presentation in Flutter for me. Especially after several presentations already done I have my custom "framework" and a lot of helper methods for animation or transitions. You just need to clone desktop embedding repo and have fun with example.

Now with plugins for notifications and file access I think about porting one of password managers to Flutter Desktop. This would take a lot of work but might be a great case for lightweight crossplatform password manager.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone using flutter in favour of electron to bui... by tomerbd on Thursday October 31, 2019 @04:38AM (#21406762)

it's faster for you to make presentations in flutter rather than standard presentation softwares (ppt, google draw etc)? :)

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone using flutter in favour of electron to bui... by orestesgaolin on Thursday October 31, 2019 @07:11AM (#21407493)

When I have some helper widgets then yes. Some things are really hard to do (e.g. stepping through animations), but other are very easy (responsive layout, so I can present the same file on 4:3, 16:9 or other ratios).

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone using flutter in favour of electron to bui... by tomerbd on Thursday October 31, 2019 @03:37PM (#21412749)

Interesting... Do you embeed then the animation in a standard presentation (like PPT or something n like that) if so how?

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone using flutter in favour of electron to bui... by orestesgaolin on Monday November 04, 2019 @02:16AM (#21439562)

No, everything is done with Flutter

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