LEletalvoj·May 9, 2017Submission
Shrinkray: Lightweight alternative to Electron
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shrinkray
C2017–2017
seflless / shrinkray
shrinkray
Lightweight alternative to Electron for making macOS apps using Javascript
2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
284GitHub stars
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What it is
Lightweight alternative to Electron for making macOS apps using Javascript
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Where it is used
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Observed mentions: 2017-04-15 18:06:47 UTC to 2017-05-09 11:23:02 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Apr 15 | 2017-04-15 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-04-16 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Apr 16 | 2017-04-16 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-04-17 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 17 | 2017-04-17 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-04-18 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 18 | 2017-04-18 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-04-19 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 19 | 2017-04-19 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-04-20 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 20 | 2017-04-20 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-04-21 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 21 | 2017-04-21 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-04-22 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 22 | 2017-04-22 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-04-23 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 23 | 2017-04-23 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-04-24 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 24 | 2017-04-24 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-04-25 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| Apr 26 | 2017-04-26 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-04-27 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 27 | 2017-04-27 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-04-28 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| Apr 30 | 2017-04-30 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 1 | 2017-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-05-02 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2 | 2017-05-02 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-05-03 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| May 6 | 2017-05-06 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-05-07 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 7 | 2017-05-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-05-08 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 8 | 2017-05-08 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-05-09 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 9 | 2017-05-09 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-05-10 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesI'v been experimenting with trying to make a smaller Electron like Javascript application wrapper. It's called Shrinkray, and only adds 60K of overhead to the size of the app. See:
https://github.com/francoislaberge/shrinkray
It is macOS only (for now). I haven't measured if it is more performant when in the background, but I will. It'seems certainly way smaller in disk size, but comes with tradeoffs in API/functionality.
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