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Re:Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia by gschier on Saturday February 01, 2025 @08:37AM (#42898186)
Yes, Tauri isn't that much different than Electron. I also bundles Node JS to power Yaak's plugin system, which makes it even more similar.

I think Electron gets a bad rep mostly because big companies use it to build low quality apps.

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Re:Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia by klabb3 on Saturday February 01, 2025 @08:47AM (#42898244)
Tauri doesn’t bundle Chromium and Node. My app bundle is 10MB and it even bundles a sidecar binary in Go. A hello world electron bundle is 100+ MB.
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Re:Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia by gschier on Saturday February 01, 2025 @09:00AM (#42898328)
Ya the bundle size is different for sure. The memory usage isn't far off though, since it's still a web app.
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