[xal]

Awesome project.

If there is ever a project that needed an electron app it’s this one. I’d love to have a Perspective.app that efficiently loads local data style files.

[texodus]

We're building something along these lines at https://www.prospective.co/

[ivanmontillam]

Electron is going to kill the good performance gains of Perspective. Even if you have a fully beefed-up workstation, Electron is going to trigger the CPU fans.

Electron is discouraged nowadays in favor of lightweight solutions like Sciter[0], Tauri[1] or even WebView2[2].

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[0]: https://sciter.com/

[1]: https://tauri.app/

[2]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/

[eis]

I don't see why rendering this in Electron (which is essentially just a bundled Chromium browser) would perform differently than in a standalone browser. Neither do I see how projects like Tauri or WebView2 which just embed the system webview would give better rendering performance. Microsofts webview is even using the same rendering engine as Electron - Blink. What you'd get is significantly smaller binary size but most people don't care much about that.

[airstrike]

I'm building something similar to this and going down the Tauri route