graderjs

For those who didn't reach the end of the README.md, it seems to use an electron-alternative called grader, from the same author: https://github.com/i5ik/graderjs It runs server and downloads Chrome (if not available already) and starts it in app mode.

My solution to this (it's been done before), is to use the existing browser engine (not the system webview) installed. So far I only utilize Chrome, but as the way I connect to it is over the Chrome DevTools protocol which is somewhat fluent with the Remote Debugging Protocol[0] that Firefox is doing, this is a reasonable approach. So far my "tool" to do this is simply a template repository with some conveniences, providing in essence a skeleton for these types of apps. I hope to flesh this out a little more, and expose a much richer API, as well as convert some of my existing popular apps (like 22120[1]) to the "framework". The benefit of this is Graderjs has a built in 'app builder' that can create a cross-platform binary (excluding or ignoring the necessity (on MacOS) and near-necessity (on Windows) to sign your executable somehow, tha

It is a good idea but it is not a new idea the interesting history of these sorts of frameworks is that Google actually created a framework that did this and stopped development on it. the code is still on GitHub. And there's a bunch of other frameworks that use a variety of different languages not just rust as the application language that also have this idea of not bundling chromium but instead using the system webview for rendering HTML and JavaScript. You can find a bunch of different approaches in lists like "alternatives to electron." There's some on GitHub. I took a slightly different approach where instead of using the system web view which I thought you know is going to be inconsistent across systems and it's not going to support the latest HTML JavaScript and security features I used the assumption that the user already has chro

I use Chrome in `--app` mode to render UI and combine with a Node.JS server and package with nexe and upx to make a cross-platform desktop app. The memory performance is around 200 MB (~150 Mb for the Chrome and 50 Mb for the Node.JS service). It takes about 4 seconds to launch (but about 30 seconds on Windows the first time, I think due to security checks, AV, etc...). The GUI is written in HTML, but it doesn't use Electron. You can try it out here[0], too. I open sourced it. And "hello world" binary download size is 10 Mb for Windows. [0]: https://github.com/c9fe/graderjs