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Re:NeutralinoJS: Lightweight Electron alternative using nati... by mfer on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @01:15PM (#22425619)
The problem with this is that is requires people to have Chrome installed. That's a awkward dependency to require for a stand alone app.
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Re:NeutralinoJS: Lightweight Electron alternative using nati... by NullPrefix on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @01:39PM (#22425833)
Found this in Carlo to issue 90 [2]:

>If one chooses a chromium channel in the launch options, then carlo calls puppeteer createBrowserFetcher which will download the chromium revision compatible with Puppeteer or even a specific revision. sunglasses

In regular ElectronJS you have the same Chromium bundled with the app. Not sure if puppeteer installs a local or system wide Chromium.

2: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/carlo/issues/90

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Re:NeutralinoJS: Lightweight Electron alternative using nati... by petecox on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @06:53PM (#22428845)
Windows 10 (Edge), Chrome OS and Android all now bundle Chromium, while it's packaged in desktop Linux. That really leaves only macos.

VSCode, say, as a slimmer download sans web runtime is a possible outcome.

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Re:NeutralinoJS: Lightweight Electron alternative using nati... by potiuper on Thursday February 27, 2020 @07:47AM (#22432732)
"While it's packaged in desktop Linux" you are using the wrong distro(s).
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Re:NeutralinoJS: Lightweight Electron alternative using nati... by tln on Thursday February 27, 2020 @11:21AM (#22434578)
And node!
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