Hacker News with Generative AI: Electron

Slack, Notion, and VSCode Improved Electron App Performance (palette.dev)
Leading the development of electron-react-boilerplate for over a decade has taught me a lot about bottlenecks in Electron apps and how to work around them. Properly engineered, Electron apps can closely rival the performance of native apps. This post is a complete guide on exploiting every Electron performance optimization I know so that you can get the most mileage.

Electron, Performance Optimization, Web Development, Software, Productivity Tools

5 points by amilajack 2 days ago | 1 comments

Things people get wrong about Electron (felixrieseberg.com)
I dedicated years bringing web technologies and desktop apps closer together. The most recent and most successful project in that vein is Electron, which I've spent the last ten years working on.

Electron, Desktop Apps, Web Technologies, Software Development

17 points by auraham 121 days ago | 9 comments

Things people get wrong about Electron (felixrieseberg.com)
I dedicated years bringing web technologies and desktop apps closer together. The most recent and most successful project in that vein is Electron, which I've spent the last ten years working on.

Electron, Software Development, Desktop Apps, Web Technologies

14 points by jay_kyburz 121 days ago | 4 comments

Reverse Engineering Bambu Connect (rossmanngroup.com)
Bambu Connect is an Electron App with Security through Obscurity principles, hence it is inherently insecure.

Reverse Engineering, Security, Electron, Software

532 points by pabs3 124 days ago | 361 comments

Show HN: Electrico – Electron Without Node and Chrome (github.com/thomastschurtschenthaler)
Electrico is an experimental alternative App Container for Electron Apps.

Electron, App Containers, Open Source, Software Development

214 points by thomastsch 251 days ago | 75 comments

Speeding up Electron apps by using V8 snapshots in the main process (github.com/RaisinTen)
Speeding up Electron apps by using V8 snapshots in the main process

Electron, Performance Optimization, JavaScript, V8

58 points by raisin10 260 days ago | 55 comments

Photino: A lighter Electron (tryphotino.io)

Electron, Web Development, Open Source, Software, JavaScript

32 points by AbuAssar 292 days ago | 52 comments

Comparing desktop development tools, Qt, Electron and macOS Native (bumblemeow.com)