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,…?

  • intelisense
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    7 months ago

    I just wish there was a native alternative to Visual Studio Code with a decent ecosystem of plugins.

    • Aniki 🌱🌿English
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      7 months ago

      Mate, VSCodium is pretty right the fuck on. I’m a devops engineer but mostly a python dude so I use PyCharm for most development but when I need to do ANYTHING else that’s not Python my VSCodium is pretty dialed.