Web Hosting and Electron Apps

Electron is a popular framework for developing cross-platform desktop apps using web technologies. It offers several advantages over its competition: rapid development time, platform compatibility and an array of APIs (including native OS functionality) etc.

Before choosing one of these platforms for your next app project, it’s essential that you are fully informed of its advantages and drawbacks.

One of the key challenges associated with Electron apps is system resource usage. Electron apps tend to consume excessive CPU and RAM resources, which may degrade user experience or cause your app to crash on certain devices – this would likely cause users to abandon your app in favor of one that requires less resources and runs faster.

There are a variety of strategies to address this problem, such as using a lightweight electron shell (e.g., Minimalist), Remote Isolation, or taking an hybrid approach that utilizes Local Resources and Remote Isolation. All three approaches present their own set of challenges and tradeoffs that should be carefully considered when making any decision regarding this matter.

Electron apps tend to have more complex architecture than remote web apps due to running on desktop environments, which includes spawning multiple processes, managing execution contexts and process block structures, using IPC message passing between guest pages and parent renderer process, etc. If you choose this path, be prepared for an unfamiliar update process, as both Electron shell and shared web app modules need to be managed separately.