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Re:Show HN: Electrico – Electron Without Node and Chrome (Ru... by cyanydeez on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @07:11AM (#41566426)
Yes, this is the best benefit of elecrron: you dont have to trouble shoot 10s of OS webview versions and their ixremental suppory, especially with MacOS.

But it is right that the ui for elwctron has to use a IPC layer to get a node backend running. However, chrome is moving a lot of things like FilesystemAPI into browsers so there may be a day were nodejs is dropped in favor of a sandboxed chromium.

Re:Show HN: Electrico – Electron Without Node and Chrome (Ru... by killcoder on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @08:00AM (#41566741)
You don’t need IPC, you can either use a preload script to expose particular Node APIs in a secure manner or set ‘nodeIntegration‘ to ‘true’ to expose everything.

Source: https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/api/structures/web-pr...