So much effort, just to run Xcode remotely. For those of you who want to ship code to macOS from CI (e.g. Electron apps), you should check out my companies product at https://hydraulic.dev/ ... It lets you package, sign, notarize and upload self-updating Mac apps from any OS including Linux. Amongst other things it bundles Sparkle on the fly also, so you don't have to deal with Squirrel, and it can do the same... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

I work on a tool that simplifies deploying desktop apps, and we're looking at what improvements the Electron community might benefit from the most. It'd be great to get feedback on where your biggest pain points are and what you'd find most valuable in such a tool. Source: 8 months ago

You could try experimenting with Hydraulic Conveyor [1]. I built it originally due to the frustrations involved in distributing P2P software during my old Bitcoin days so you won't get any hate from me about that ;) Conveyor can package Electron apps and also do all the Mac specific stuff from any platform including Linux. So it can sign, notarize and staple the app itself, also bundling Sparkle updates as it... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

What do you think is a fair price for a solo dev trialling a small app? I'm asking because my firm makes a competitor to ToDesktop (sort of) [1], and this is a question we often get. It's free for open source apps and cheaper than ToDesktop, but the "I just want to trial an idea and not spend any money on it" use case isn't well supported by this pricing model. One possibility is a trial period, but then how long... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

Apple bundles compared to Flatpaks: • Both use reverse DNS to globally identify themselves, neither actually verifies DNS ownership. • Almost everything is a bundle, except for CLI apps. FlatPaks on the other hand are being auto-converted from previous packaging systems. • Bundles don't have dependencies. In theory they can, but in practice they never do. You depend on macOS/iOS as a unitary platform and bundles... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

Oh by "Web Environment" you mean "my machine" lol! I already got caught by this - a https://github.com/nativefier/nativefier app wrapping Youtube Music doesn't work, because Google detects somehow that you are not using a trusted browser and refuses to serve. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

AFAIK there's only nativefier and peppermintos' ice. Source: about 1 year ago

Install Nativefier from Terminal using the command npm install -g nativefier. Source: about 1 year ago

It's still not quite the same as Chromium webapps, which are just isolated windows in the same core process -- FFPWA spins up entire other instances of Firefox -- and in effect operates more like Nativefier (with Firefox instead of Electron/Chromium). Source: about 1 year ago

Take a look at this: https://github.com/nativefier/nativefier. Source: about 1 year ago