flavienbonvin
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7 months ago Hello, thanks for the feedback and the patience.
I can share some insights regarding why we went for Electron instead of Tauri. We started the project with a market overview of what our competitors and other companies were using, and the overwhelming majority is using either Electron or CEF. Here are a few reasons why we decided to go for Electron:
- Electron is mature, it has been present for more than 10 years now and has supported many companies to build spectacular software (VSCode, Slack, One Password, Discord).
- Electron Forge helps remove many of the pains of building custom Electron Builder configuration and significantly improved development speed.
- All the Node.js and JS ecosystem of libraries is available to support development. This can range to security vulnerability scanning (electronegativity) to an .app creation for an uninstaller (mac-appify).
- Electron is based on Node.js and Chromium. Chromium is one of the criticisms made against Electron, but it's also one of his strength. Using Chromium ensure a mostly consistent experience across all OSes.
Those are the main reasons we decided to go for Electron instead of alternatives such as Tauri. Tauri looks promising, but the lack of usage by big companies and the use of the OS web view (which could introduce unexpected bugs) was what made us go for Electron instead.
Yovach
Hi, I'm curious as to why the app is written with Electron and not with Tauri as it seems to be a website wrapper.
The Electron app requires a large file (a yet another chromium browser like VSCode and Discord) to be download whereas Tauri can be small