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Might as well just use electron at that point since it's easier on the developer side.

Uh, aren't users the most important factor here, not developers?

Sure, such that in my experience users prefer dedicated apps most of the time.

For example, Postman (browser-based HTTP client) has some of the worst UX because it's a Chrome app and not stand-alone. Can't event alt-tab to it. I have to alt-tab to Chrome and then find the Postman window.

Users also prefer to be able to use more than one program at a time on their computer, so please, if you have to use Electron, keep an eye on performance characteristics of your application.

I'm not a heavy user of Postman so I can't say if the UX was improved by it, but Postman actually moved to Electron last year: http://blog.getpostman.com/2017/03/14/going-native/

Only to a certain degree.

But even worse for the user than a web browser already is.

Can we, instead of combining the worst of native apps, web apps and containerizaton, maybe work towards removing SOME of the terrible aspects for users? If developer comfort is the highest priority you might as well skip making the interface look nice/useable.

Electron really is an extension of Chrome and it'd be damn nice if it could be shipped as one.

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