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What exactly is it? NET wrapper on top of Electron? #25

Closed jitbit closed 7 years ago

jitbit commented 7 years ago

The homepage lacks the most important information... What is this exactly? I though tit was a .net alternative to Electron, turns out it's it's just Electron (JS-based yeah) with a web-app running on the background?

robertmuehsig commented 7 years ago

Valid point.

I quote my intro blogpost, which may show you the basic "communication"

The basic functionality is not too complex:

We ship a “standard” (more or less blank) Electron app Inside the Electron part two free ports are searched: The first free port is used inside the Electron app itself The second free port is used for the ASP.NET Core process The app launches the .NET Core process with ASP.NET Core port (e.g. localhost:8002) and injects the > first port as parameter Now we have a Socket.IO based linked between the launched ASP.NET Core app and the Electron app itself - this is our communication bridge!

Currently it is a Wrapper - not a port. We heard the feedback and I assume that many think Electron.NET is a port. I will open another issue how a port might look like and what the problems are. Some aspects and ideas are already mentioned in this issue.

I think we need to update the readme @GregorBiswanger

Anyway - thanks for your feedback 👍

jitbit commented 7 years ago

Thanks! You should probable mention this on the home page to fix this issue

joaocc commented 7 years ago

Have you guys considered using something like Bridge.Net (https://bridge.net/) to speed up the integration work?

robertmuehsig commented 7 years ago

I saw this project in combination with Retyped a couple of weeks back. There are lot of possibilities. The idea was to get a familiar environment for ASP.NET Core devs, this might not be ideal, but we are looking for feedback :)

joaocc commented 7 years ago

Hi. Googled a bit more and I found these https://github.com/bridgedotnet/Widgetoko which seems closer to what I was asking about (something about it https://blog.bridge.net/widgetoko-a-node-js-and-electron-application-written-in-c-1a2be480e4f9). Both approaches seem very interesting even though, in our case, the Widgetoko seems more interesting (we have an existing Electron/Angular/TS app). Anyway, excellent initiative!

Suchiman commented 7 years ago

I wonder how much effort it would be to plug into electron to create a <script type="text/csharp" /> since that would perform better than compiling C# to JS

robertmuehsig commented 7 years ago

So - I added some notes to the Readme.md and hope it is now clear what it is. Feel free to comment here if you have some more questions.