Electron is not a rendering engine. It’s an application bundler, which itself bundles Chromium and NodeJS.

This project uses native web views, like Tauri. They wrote that they might provide the option of bundling your own engine, ie like Electron, which I personally think it’s a bad idea. Tauri proved that you don’t need it.

But now that you mention it, agreed that 50MB is a lot.. maybe just standard JS dep bloat? That could be clarified.

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Wytwwww 8 months ago | parent [-]

> Tauri proved that you don’t need it

Are there any major cross-platform apps based on it?

	▲	klabb3 8 months ago \| parent [-]
		Last I checked they did a pretty bad job showcasing the apps. But search for “awesome-tauri”, it’s pretty standard these days. Way past the initial hipster phase, almost boring. A bit of self promo: you can also check out https://payload.app/ which is the project I’ve been working on for way too long now.