Slack is far, far, from a simple text chat, regardless of what you (or I) think it should be. I hadn’t checked its size. On my system it’s about 200MB+another 200MB per workspace. Yeah, that’s outrageous. But Firefox is using about 10GB, so I’m not exactly convinced that a web app is going to have a significantly smaller footprint than Electron.

The fact that Slack is such a high-quality app is in my mind a huge vote in favour of Electron (as is Discord)

../Dave
On Oct 11, 2018, 10:53 AM -0400, Jamon Camisso via talk <talk@gtalug.org>, wrote:
On 11/10/18 10:37, David Mason via talk wrote:
Electron is probably the easiest way to move a web app to an
application. See:
    https://electronjs.org/

It uses html, javascript, css and should be able to connect to your
postgresql database.

slack, what should be a simple text chat built on electron is taking
873044 kb RSS memory on my desktop.

electron should be the last resort - it is probably the worst thing you
could do for your users if you care about resource constraints.

I would question the merit of even moving from a web application. I am
on 400/100kbit DSL in the country, and I don't have any issues with even
large react or ember based web apps.

Cheers, Jamon
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