ToDesktop – Web app to desktop app in minutes
I&#x27;ll be honest: I make a concentrated effort to avoid these apps that are just a website stuffed into a (usually quite gigantic) executable for a number of reasons:<p>- They always feel sluggish. Animations are jittery. Text input that does things (contextual search for example) jitters and jumps instead of smoothly performing it&#x27;s task.<p>- Scrolling, especially scrolling that loads content, is also often jittery and laggy, if it doesn&#x27;t just stop working abruptly and require a reload.<p>- I can&#x27;t help but feel it&#x27;s incredibly unnecessary for these apps to be as MASSIVE as they are. Usually several hundred megabytes at a go. I know storage is cheap these days but I own several games on steam that aren&#x27;t that pudgy on the disk.<p>I just don&#x27;t like them. Every time I download a new app and I realize it&#x27;s electron or node or react or whatever the new shiny framework is everyone likes, I will remove it unless I <i>absolutely 100% need it</i> to perform a task. And I will likely be groaning and complaining the entire time as I listen to my PC clock up it&#x27;s fans to deal with running 150MB of bloody javascript to show it&#x27;s UI.<p>I know this is largely a me problem, I&#x27;m aware of that. But I just don&#x27;t like them. And especially given that a whole lot of these apps aren&#x27;t built by scrappy underdog devs but massive firms that could extremely easily afford native developers... I dunno. It rubs me the wrong way.<p>Like I don&#x27;t know how else to say this: If you want to make software, make software. If you want to make websites, make websites. Stop trying to make software out of website tools.