Electron has one major failing: It produces massive binaries (70MB to 150MB in size) and is a huge resource hog (300MB to 1GB RAM, 300MB disk storage, plus the bundled Chromium is a hefty CPU hog). Sure it works, but that doesn't make it the best option for building native apps.
CubicleSoft PHP App Server is the alternative I wrote, maintain, and prefer. PHP App Server uses the user's already installed and configured web browser and comes with premade installer scripts for producing installers for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The final binaries are as small as few hundred KB (compressed) and is ultra-light on resources (the server uses ~1MB RAM). And you get access to PHP too in addition to CSS, JS, and HTML.
Electron has one major failing: It produces massive binaries (70MB to 150MB in size) and is a huge resource hog (300MB to 1GB RAM, 300MB disk storage, plus the bundled Chromium is a hefty CPU hog). Sure it works, but that doesn't make it the best option for building native apps.
CubicleSoft PHP App Server is the alternative I wrote, maintain, and prefer. PHP App Server uses the user's already installed and configured web browser and comes with premade installer scripts for producing installers for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The final binaries are as small as few hundred KB (compressed) and is ultra-light on resources (the server uses ~1MB RAM). And you get access to PHP too in addition to CSS, JS, and HTML.
Hey!
Thanks for the information on Electron JS. I'll definitely check the PHP App server you wrote!.
Thank you