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Electrobun: Cross-platform desktop applications written in TypeScript

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323 points CharlesW | 3 comments | 20 Nov 24 23:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.773s | source
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ivanjermakov ◴[21 Nov 24 12:52 UTC] No.42203851[source]▶
What rendering engine does it use? Project name suggests Electron, but they never mention it

> The current Electrobun Playground app is 50.4MB in size (most of this is the bun runtime)

Seems to be more than just bun runtime.

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1. klabb3 ◴[21 Nov 24 14:59 UTC] No.42204898[source]▶
Electron is not a rendering engine. It’s an application bundler, which itself bundles Chromium and NodeJS.

This project uses native web views, like Tauri. They wrote that they might provide the option of bundling your own engine, ie like Electron, which I personally think it’s a bad idea. Tauri proved that you don’t need it.

But now that you mention it, agreed that 50MB is a lot.. maybe just standard JS dep bloat? That could be clarified.

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2. Wytwwww ◴[21 Nov 24 20:14 UTC] No.42208145[source]▶
> Tauri proved that you don’t need it

Are there any major cross-platform apps based on it?

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3. klabb3 ◴[21 Nov 24 20:31 UTC] No.42208314[source]▶
Last I checked they did a pretty bad job showcasing the apps. But search for “awesome-tauri”, it’s pretty standard these days. Way past the initial hipster phase, almost boring.

A bit of self promo: you can also check out https://payload.app/ which is the project I’ve been working on for way too long now.