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What's your experience with Electron alternatives (lemmy.ml)

submitted 7 months ago by LemmyHead@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Electron is a widely hated framework on Linux, but what about the alternatives like Neutralinojs?

In their own words: In Electron and NWjs, you have to install Node.js and hundreds of dependency libraries. Embedded Chromium and Node.js make simple apps bloaty — in most scenarios, framework weights more than your app source. Neutralinojs offers a lightweight and portable SDK which is an alternative for Electron and NW.js. Neutralinojs doesn't bundle Chromium and uses the existing web browser library in the operating system (Eg: gtk-webkit2 on Linux). Neutralinojs implements a secure WebSocket connection for native operations and embeds a static web server to serve the web content. Also, it offers a built-in JavaScript client library for developers.

Do you experience alternatives like Njs to blend more in the desktop layout, install less junk, use less memory, are more compatible with Wayland,...?

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 46 points 7 months ago (24 children)

No matter how much I like an alternative to Electron. It cannot save me from bad Electron apps.

[–] Secret300@sh.itjust.works 13 points 7 months ago (23 children)

Are there any good electron apps? Like genuinely

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 42 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

VSCode and Obsidian work great.

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago

Until you want to integrate with the system and use gtk window controls.

[–] Secret300@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I hear great things about obsidian but I haven't used it since it's not open source

[–] why@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 7 months ago

Im willing to give them a pass on that since they don't vender lock the notes I'm taking.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 6 points 7 months ago

Sure, but all it does it give you a nice UI for local markdown files. There's no lock-in.

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