Re:The State of Desktop Applications in Node.js
by rdtsc on Wednesday December 10, 2014 @11:54AM
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Regardless of my personal view of JS desktop apps the reasoning usually follows out of a combination of these:
* Web browsers already have a way of creating widgets
rendering them, changing their skins
* There are many javascript libraries and frameworks, so can use those for connecting backends, processing events, etc.
* With a bit of luck you can run the same code as an actual web page.
* Desktop app is an after-thought today because web service/web page came first. The world of software applications with a GUI on top started with Desktop apps that were then adapted for the web. Today perhaps the opposite is true.
* Web browsers already have a way of creating widgets rendering them, changing their skins
* There are many javascript libraries and frameworks, so can use those for connecting backends, processing events, etc.
* With a bit of luck you can run the same code as an actual web page.
* Desktop app is an after-thought today because web service/web page came first. The world of software applications with a GUI on top started with Desktop apps that were then adapted for the web. Today perhaps the opposite is true.