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Does it need to be a desktop app? Why not go the web based approach?

My guess is that this line is why a web application is somewhat out of the question: "I am from Brazil, and here is mandatory to send electronic documents to the government every time you make any sale..."

That said, perhaps the middle-road option of an Electron app that is built to assume unreliable/intermittent internet connection would be the best straddle of desktop and web?

To be honest, I am not sure.

I saw a bunch of web ERPs going around, and a bunch of desktop ones, and some hibrids.

I don't found out yet what are the advanges and disvanges of each.

Although desktop ones are seemly more reliable due to web ones needing firefox or chrome, and those programs seemly REALLY, REALLY like to drink RAM like there is no tomorrow.

But you get the benefit of pushing updates quicker. Is the app going to run on low-end PCs, are computer resources such a big issue? We ran our web-based ERP on 4gb machines with little SW optimisation without any hiccups.

If you go with the Electron approach you only need to validate the "web app" part on one browser: the version of Chromium in the final app bundle.

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