Open maxwowpow opened 6 years ago
kzahel
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6 years ago Ah yes I see. It looks to me like postman is using Electron ... a 70MB download.
Google is not retiring apps from Chrome, rather they are retiring them from Windows/Linux/OS X. They will still continue to function on ChromeOS.
I think it might be nice to provide the app for Windows/OS X/Linux, but honestly aren't there better solutions for these platforms?
I will consider it, but honestly HATE electron apps ... :-)
maxwowpow
commented
6 years ago I know, it bugs me every time I see a 10kb JS file packed into 140MB JS Interpreter.
But with time I found many apps which are awesome (using one of many packing tools) like Spotify, WebTorrent, VS Code, Atom and so on. I strongly believe that many people who started with Postman will be loving to continue working with it on Windows/MacOS/Linux after the day X. Personally I used node webkit https://github.com/nwjs/nw.js/ for my apps. Maybe you/we could provide at least the compiled payload for nwjs or electrone, so people can seamlessly start it with they own nwjs (drag&drop main.js to exe) at a first step.
And thank you for considering!
kzahel
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6 years ago That's a great idea, being able to support a drag into existing nwjs/electron runtime. I will probably try that route first, and then maybe look into packaging a nwjs/electron binary later.
You are probably correct that plenty of users are multi-platform (e.g. found this app on chromebook but like to use it on windows etc) so it would be kind of stupid to just leave them hanging.
Chrome is retiring apps from Chrome, so it would be nice to have releases for a standalone compiled version of the WebServer here on github. Postman for example supports a standalone App.