I wonder why so many people bundle Electron when you can make your app run in any browser. Like, you can totally write a program that just launches the browser and makes it load a site from lokal storage
Electron (and Tauri, and Neutralino) also offers some deeper OS integration stuff that browsers don’t do or actively block; direct file management, USB peripheral control, that sort of thing.
But for something like Discord, you’re totally right. You just need the browser.
You can do USB control over browser, at least enough for Keychron to do their keyboard configuration stuff as a web app. It’s pretty cool actually, no need to install anything, even works on Linux
I wonder why so many people bundle Electron when you can make your app run in any browser. Like, you can totally write a program that just launches the browser and makes it load a site from lokal storage
Electron (and Tauri, and Neutralino) also offers some deeper OS integration stuff that browsers don’t do or actively block; direct file management, USB peripheral control, that sort of thing.
But for something like Discord, you’re totally right. You just need the browser.
You can do USB control over browser, at least enough for Keychron to do their keyboard configuration stuff as a web app. It’s pretty cool actually, no need to install anything, even works on Linux
Only in Chrome. Firefox deliberately didn’t implement this.
@UnfortunateShort @kirk781 there is PWA for such apps