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A comment on Ask HN: What Are the Best Practices for Making Electron Apps Optimized for Macs?.

Re:Ask HN: What Are the Best Practices for Making Electron A... by vulcan01 on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @05:12PM (#23470964)
Don't use Electron.

It's like wrapping an entire browser for just one app. The overhead is going to slow it down. Write a native app instead. The second best option is to just make a website.

Whatever you do, avoid Electron. Your users will thank you.

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Re:Ask HN: What Are the Best Practices for Making Electron A... by artur_makly on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @11:00PM (#23473454)
i appreciate the advice but this doesnt really answer my Q. Electron is a requirement from the client. Also our team is not experienced with developing pure native apps, just React, ReactNative and JS.

We also need a stand-alone experience for the end-user so web wont do.

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Re:Ask HN: What Are the Best Practices for Making Electron A... by stevepdp on Friday June 12, 2020 @12:04PM (#23500568)
> Also our team is not experienced with developing pure native apps, just React, ReactNative and JS.

If you can get away from the Electron requirement, then perhaps Microsoft's React Native for Windows & macOS is an option?

See https://microsoft.github.io/react-native-windows/

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Re:Ask HN: What Are the Best Practices for Making Electron A... by artur_makly on Friday June 12, 2020 @01:49PM (#23501762)
still too green I think based on their notes: "This documentation and the underlying platform code is a work in progress. Examples (C# and C++/WinRT)"
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