Why is electron so fucking trash?
Why is electron so fucking trash?
Jordan Jones
Tyler Barnes
javascript + chrome
Nathan Ramirez
Let's see what apps you've written.
Jayden Myers
>web frontend developers write desktop applications
>good
Isaiah Allen
>this food tastes like shit
>what food have you made
Cringe
Hudson Sanchez
>can't even cook food
Pathetic.
Easton Gray
> retards want quick bux
Juan Miller
electron is the GoAnimate of desktop app development
>lets webtards make stuff w/o learning anything new
>primary focus on making creator's life easier but produces a shitty product
It's horse shit, but then again so is every actual desktop UI library. No wonder something so abhorrently garbage is even allowed to be taken as anything beyond a meme, let alone a viable solution. Shit's in shambles
Jaxon Cox
>using nodejs as a host for the chromium embedded browser
i wonder why...
Carter Moore
javascript + chrome + nodejs + api
Evan King
it's all about money, businesses adore electron
Chase Diaz
name another framework that provides a consistent ui across all platforms. you cannot, that's why we have shit like electron, DOM was already good and people can't be bothered to make something new.
Ian Nguyen
Whatever Spotify use. Shame it's proprietary.
Michael Jackson
Based Asuka poster
Brandon Mitchell
can I embed a virtual machine / container inside a electron app?
Juan Reed
>companies like apple don't allow browser APIs
>therefore you must make a desktop app to do most things otherwise capable in the browser on windows and linux
It's the same with progressive web apps, they simply don't support mobile APIs like android does so they can make money from using THEIR app store, rather than having a free/open platform.
>yfw google are the good guys in all this, and apple are actually the bad guys.
Aaron Foster
Electron is actually pretty good , you can have both desktop and web versions deployed with pretty similar code bases. Not to mention try making something that looks as good as what you can do with html and css with qt or gtk+ , you can probably do it but its gonna be one monster of a file.
Gabriel Wilson
>running an entire chromium instance for every app just to cause the feel it's not a webapp when it's indeed a webapp
how's this pretty good again? are you retarded?
Joshua Flores
> muh looks
Fuck quality amirite.
Cameron Baker
>shit ''food'' == food
Grayson Williams
Some users want a desktop version when they could just use a browser version(look at discord).
You can still make quality things with electron you will just sacrifice some ram in the process , if you wanted to cut electron out then just when you start your app open chrome and point it to a local host sever.
Carter Rodriguez
What if the point of the app is to look good?
David Hernandez
Well, desktop UI development is such a pile of shit that there's room for Electron.
Yeah webdev is a shit but creating layouts/UIs with web tech is very easy.
Kayden Watson
It's Node.js + Chrome.
But that Chrome has no Chrome, so Chrome extensions can't work.
I tried to make my own browser based on Electron and gave up because only a handful extensions could be gotten to working state.
Evan Howard
>javascript
>node
>chrome
It's garbage on top of garbage, running garbage.
Ian Parker
You already have it with web assembly, I think.
Ethan Allen
No matter what, now that Microsoft controls it, they will fuck it up.
Lucas Diaz
Using progressive web apps + Electron you can basically create a mobile,desktop and web program all at once. Ain't that great