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Building a desktop app with JavaScript

OpenSource on December 20, 2023

GitHub Repo: https://github.com/webcrumbs-community/webcrumbs Ever wondered how Visual Studio Code, Slack and Discord, and many other cool apps, a...
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Sohail Pathan

Do check Tauri - tauri.app/. Recently, this is gaining more attention from developers. We are also using this for one of the new products.

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OpenSource

It's legit, Tauri is bringing up a lot of attention. It's on my list!

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Sohail Pathan

Happy to read that as well :)

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Mitch Chimwemwe Chanza

I love tauri ot makes life easier to develop secure and lightweight desktop applications .

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Eckehard

If you use the good oldfashioned scripts (No ES6-modules), any html file (with embedded or external Javascript) can be run locally in the browser.

If you manage to run a web server on the fly, this would also work for modern web apps.

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Matek

Not obvious way how we can work with JS. Nice article. Thanks for it

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OpenSource

Thanks for reading!

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Richard Guay

Wails is better wails.io

I think it’s much easier to use than Tauri and much smaller than Electron or NWjs. But, I do use NWjs for proof of concept builds.

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OpenSource

Hi, Richard! Thanks for mentioning the alternatives. It’s really good for those reading this

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Dan Coral

nice

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Really good lessons

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yunusu skywatcher

Amazing

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