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Show HN: Rapidmg – Automated app installations from DMG files

Posted by patr0nus on Saturday August 05, 2023 @12:38PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://rapidmg.branchseer.com/

Hi HN! I've built this little macOS app to automate app installations from DMG files. Opening DMG files with Rapidmg is basically equivalent to:1. Mount 2. Drag the app to the "Applications" folder 3. Unmount 4. Delete the dmg (optional) 5. Locate the app in "Applications"Here are some technical details that make Rapidmg possible inside the macOS app sandbox:- DMG files are containers of raw...

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Re:WebWindow, a cross-platform webview library for .NET Core on Monday November 18, 2019 @08:47PM (#21570064)
And my shameless plug: https://github.com/patr0nus/DeskGap
Re:Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @09:45AM (#19368033)
What about Dukto [0]?

IMO if something doesn't require the internet connection, it is more likely to be called "software", not a "service".

[0] http://www.msec.it/blog/?page_id=11

Re:Show HN: DeskGap – Like Electron, but uses the system webview on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @10:45PM (#19150208)
No it would not be. Hopefully Electron will actually do this in some day.
Re:Show HN: DeskGap – Like Electron, but uses the system webview on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @10:43PM (#19150191)
Based on my experiences of using Safari, Edge and Chrome, the RAM overhead is lower. However as the app gets more complex the overhead becomes irrelevant.

So for now I consider DeskGap a good place for simple apps. But if you start to build something like VS Code, the RAM usage can’t be good, either.

Re:Show HN: DeskGap – Like Electron, but uses the system webview on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @10:26PM (#19150102)
I shared your concern before I started the project, and talked about this in the readme's FAQ[0].

[0] https://deskgap.com/#faq

Re:Show HN: DeskGap – Like Electron, but uses the system webview on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @10:01PM (#19149979)
No it's still a Win32 app. As you supposed, It's freed from UWP[0] ;).

[0]https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/communitytoolkit/co...

Re:Show HN: DeskGap – Like Electron, but uses the system webview on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @09:54PM (#19149955)
> Nobody wants to be testing against multiple browser/rendering engines in 2019.

That's why DeskGap uses EdgeHTML on Windows. With toolchains such as webpack and babel, building an app that runs on WebKit and EdgeHTML (which is going to be replaced by Chromium[0]) can't be that hard.

> Nobody wants to wait for a vendor to update their implementation when Chrome has the feature available almost immediately.

DeskGap doesn't mean to be a complete replacement for Electron. But after a glance of Electron Apps[1], I suppose many simple apps do not require start-of-art features.

[0] https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/12/06/micro...

[1] https://electronjs.org/apps

Re:Show HN: DeskGap – Like Electron, but uses the system webview on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @09:01PM (#19149695)
Hi HN,

DeskGap is another try to build an lightweight alternative to Electron. Compared to the existing attempts [0, 1], I choose not to go that far and bundle a real Node.js with it[2].

And to battle test the framework, I wrapped squoosh[3] into a desktop app[4] with DeskGap, and successfully submitted it to the app stores.

[0] https://github.com/pojala/electrino

[1] https://github.com/jscherer92/Quark

[2] https://deskgap.com/#faq

[3] https://squoosh.app

[4] https://github.com/patr0nus/Pym/

Re:Show HN: Intercept.rest – Faster API debugging on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @10:00AM (#18075978)
You are right. Charles is a great tool and I used it everyday.

However, besides not being native, I really missed the scripting ability that Fiddler has. This is another major motivation for me to build this tool.

Re:Show HN: Proxie – HTTP debugging proxy for macOS on Sunday August 19, 2018 @05:10PM (#17796192)
Hi HN,

I am the creator of Proxie. The app has been around for a while but recently it has got its 3.0.0 update which introduces the rule functionality.

It enables you to intercept requests/responses on the fly and I think it's huge.

Happy to hear your opinions!