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gbmhunter / NinjaTerm

A serial port terminal that's got your back.

https://ninjaterm.mbedded.ninja/

GNU General Public License v3.0

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Consider switching back from PWA to using Tauri/Electron. #302

Open gbmhunter opened 11 months ago

gbmhunter commented 11 months ago

Advantages:

Can install global shortcut keys to jump to/open app.
More info on serial ports (incl. the COM/ttyUSB names)
Easier to read/write from disk
Shortcut keys like Alt-F can be caught, although I would have to pass them through from the main process.
User can decide to keep older version (or install older version)

Disadvantages:

I'd either have to set nodeIntegration to false (not recommended for security reasons) or create a whole API for communicating with the serial port and file system from the main process to the render processes (using IPC and the preload script).
Code base would be more complex, and slightly harder to perform e2e tests (although you can still use Playwright with Electron).
Would have to migrate existing code, expected to take approx. 16 hours.

gbmhunter commented 6 months ago

UPDATE: Might be better to use Tuari, which would use Rust for the backend. Utilizes the OSes webview making for lighter apps.