Why even make a desktop app at this point? I get doing that if it has some inherent advantage over the web version, but why go through the trouble of making another program if it’s just gonna be the same but in electron?
Example with Discord (a website and an electron app): You have to download the desktop app to have stuff like: game activity (show others what game you are playing), global hotkeys for stuff like muting microphone, local Krisp noise cancellation
> downloads desktop app
> looks inside
> it’s a webpage with a dedicated browser
(Web 2.0 and it’s consequences…)
Why even make a desktop app at this point? I get doing that if it has some inherent advantage over the web version, but why go through the trouble of making another program if it’s just gonna be the same but in electron?
Think of all that lovely data and tracking you can slurp up when unconstrained by the browser sandbox.
A few advantages.
You can make app specific notifications.
You can stop worrying about security since you just lock the electron version
The user thinks it is an actual app and that this is better.
Example with Discord (a website and an electron app): You have to download the desktop app to have stuff like: game activity (show others what game you are playing), global hotkeys for stuff like muting microphone, local Krisp noise cancellation
Why I dislike web apps. They make the devs lazy enough to not bother making a native app