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Comment by lordofgibbons | Hacker News Reader

How easy or difficult would it be to turn this into an electron app so that non-technical users can use it easily too?

Dev here, totally could, we dismissed it at first as electron is quite bulky containing a whole chromium instance inside the exe. instead we kept it small as possible for the exe version Truth is its not to hard to port to electron We have plans for a full UI version in V2. We are releasing V1 (SPDF is currently in beta) sometime this month. But have begun work on a V2 port to different language and framework.

Quasar.dev provides a full "interoperable" solution to get to electron and others. All the code can be written as regular Vue3, then built for:

- SPAs (Single Page App)

- SSR (Server-side Rendered App) (+ optional PWA client takeover)

- PWAs (Progressive Web App)

- BEX (Browser Extension)

- Mobile Apps (Android, iOS, …) through Cordova or Capacitor Multi-platform Desktop Apps (using Electron)

Might be worth considering if you're going full client.

Better use existing applications like PDFsam [0] or PDF-XChange [1].

[0] https://pdfsam.org/pdfsam-basic/

[1] https://pdf-xchange.eu/pdf-xchange-editor/

Why “better use some to big else”?

It would be nice if it were WASM-based. Then someone could host that version of the app and it'd still be local processing.

Why Electron? Better go the lightweight way with Tauri, NodeGUI or DeskGap.

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