Sciter, the 5 MB Electron alternative, has switched to JavaScript

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QuickJS

#Website Design #Website Builder #CMS 35 social mentions

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Sciter

Sciter is pretty successful already - https://sciter.com/ lists a number of recognisable commercial users and estimates 340 million installs over its lifetime. I very much doubt it will go mainstream without being open sourced though; closed source is simply a mindshare killer for this kind of developer-focused project.

#Development Tools #Rapid Application Development #Cross-Platform Development 67 social mentions

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Tailwind CSS

I see, in this thread, talks about what Sciter does and does not offer. It's not the only alternative to Electron, but it might be one that offers predictable and repeatable results. I released a small open source project on HN last week (https://github.com/Fusion/pngsource) and I wrote its backend logic in Go. I built the frontend using Tailwind (https://tailwindcss.com) and DaisyUI (https://daisyui.com) and, using Go compiler flags, I can release the app using both WebView (github.com/webview/webview) (which, yes, does require the host OS' collaboration) and Wails (wails.app) (which also does.) On Linux/AMD64, the binary's size is 3.7M when building for WebView, and 6.8M when targeting Wails. The way the app works is I drag/drop files to the UI, magic happens, and I use github.com/ncruces/zenity to prompt the user for a save location. I cross-compile the apps using xgo (https://github.com/karalabe/xgo) It's been working pretty well on Linux, Windows, MacOS. I think WebView's approach of limiting the feature set is working well as it feels more "native" than Wails (better refreshes and resize operations for instance) However, I already have a few tickets reporting that, for instance, the app is displayed as a blank window in some environments. And it's hard to debug remotely, obviously. So, this is where Sciter may be a better option.

#Developer Tools #Design Tools #Website Design 867 social mentions

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DaisyUI

I see, in this thread, talks about what Sciter does and does not offer. It's not the only alternative to Electron, but it might be one that offers predictable and repeatable results. I released a small open source project on HN last week (https://github.com/Fusion/pngsource) and I wrote its backend logic in Go. I built the frontend using Tailwind (https://tailwindcss.com) and DaisyUI (https://daisyui.com) and, using Go compiler flags, I can release the app using both WebView (github.com/webview/webview) (which, yes, does require the host OS' collaboration) and Wails (wails.app) (which also does.) On Linux/AMD64, the binary's size is 3.7M when building for WebView, and 6.8M when targeting Wails. The way the app works is I drag/drop files to the UI, magic happens, and I use github.com/ncruces/zenity to prompt the user for a save location. I cross-compile the apps using xgo (https://github.com/karalabe/xgo) It's been working pretty well on Linux, Windows, MacOS. I think WebView's approach of limiting the feature set is working well as it feels more "native" than Wails (better refreshes and resize operations for instance) However, I already have a few tickets reporting that, for instance, the app is displayed as a blank window in some environments. And it's hard to debug remotely, obviously. So, this is where Sciter may be a better option.

#Design Tools #User Experience #Developer Tools 137 social mentions

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Framework 7

Https://framework7.io is really well done.

#Development Tools #JavaScript Framework #Javascript UI Libraries 14 social mentions