Plans to package for desktop, too?

[J-HS-L]

This is a "Web App", yeah? If so... Should be relatively easy to package for Win/macOS/Linux/BSD etc. Given this, any plans to do so?

Thank-you.

[havijs]

You can install it on mac m1 but it is not resizable.

[hirako2000]

Why would you do that, sorry but that's not a great idea. Web browsers run on all these OS. If there is no other issue.Maybe it's okay but even then, what is better is this:

Host it on a webserver. The app itself. It's a webapp. You said it. Serve it as a webapp. It's an app that follows a principle, so it's ok to then be offline. And when online all users will need to do is access the app and it will update the app in a blink.

Installing a package on any OS, on any OS is pain. A pain for the user. It's also a pain for maintainers. To package it. Even with electron. And electron? It will take 150MB at least per app.

So look, even if you get in there and spend days to change the code to make it work with Electron, it's better to let the browser load the app and render it perfectly in a tab. That tab will take minimal memory. It's less dev work, less maintenance, and it's better UX in the end.

Please don't package this app. Until the day there is zero issues and we get so bored and can't find any better issue on any of the top 10 trending other github repo.

This repo will trend. But not if we close this issue. Then someone can come and fix it. Ok. Let's do that 😁

In fact please don't package it. Ever. It's good as it is. If a PR comes in, and it's perfect. I mean perfect perfect no possible improvement upon creation of that PR.

Then ok we package it. I'm sure someone can push a PR to host this on a webserver today. And we just close the issue

Please 😁

[hirako2000]

You can install it on mac m1 but it is not resizable. !)

Browsers resize it fine. All of them pretty much.I'm sure on the browser it resizes properly.

[havijs]

Browsers resize it fine. All of them pretty much.I'm sure on the browser it resizes properly.

I've used browsers before :D but the whole point of this application is to have it offline.

[hirako2000]

I'm sure you did. But unless the README content is misleading, it will work offline. In the browser.

The browser works offline. Not necessarily offline.It can do online too.

I understand why we don't understand web3. I think it's complicated and nobody explains it.

Let's explain web2. Or even web1 it's the same.

Now the browser supports protocols.It always supported protocols. But now those protocols are more standard. One of them is html5. It's the most used.If you don't use html5 then you are learning html4 and you are time travelling.

I think this app, works offline, on the browser, and uses html5 for that. Html5 has support for many things. One is: easy to make the app works offline, for the user AND for the developer.

I'm not sure how that works but I know it works. 😁

[hirako2000]

If it doesn't work. I will fix html5. Let's fix html5 if it's broken.

I think it's a bit broken, html5, but offline and online work. Almost all browsers support it.

[hirako2000]

@nvdsalehi can you try to go offline and see if this app works in the browser? First you need to stay online just once to get the app assets. After that it should work offline. I will test too.

[zehfernandes]

Hey @J-HS-L, That's a great idea. I will see if it's worth exporting the react-native to the web or creating a new version running with electron or neutrino.