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A comment on Ask HN: How do you create a cross-platform GUI without using Electron?.

Re:Ask HN: How do you create a cross-platform GUI without us... by antender on Friday September 10, 2021 @02:18PM (#28485268)
There is also an interesting solution to this problem: use native WebView, so you don't have to pack the whole Chrome with your app. Basically every "electron alternative" with HTML+CSS+JS works this way.

https://github.com/sudhakar3697/electron-alternatives

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Re:Ask HN: How do you create a cross-platform GUI without us... by 908B64B197 on Friday September 10, 2021 @02:29PM (#28485409)
You'll have a little bit more testing to do, as the web-views shipped by different OS might not be exactly in sync feature wise, but if your app is really simple it shouldn't be much of a problem.
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