I love the concept of local Web servers as GUI substitutes, and hope we get many more of those. Tachidesk is my favorite example. Thanks to Phoenix Liveview, Elixir is becoming a great option in this space. This method gives us every benefit of Electron and almost none of the downsides.
Or just bookmark them. They usually have the program name in the page title, on firefox just begin with * on the url bar, or press B if you have Vimium.
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I love the concept of local Web servers as GUI substitutes, and hope we get many more of those. Tachidesk is my favorite example. Thanks to Phoenix Liveview, Elixir is becoming a great option in this space. This method gives us every benefit of Electron and almost none of the downsides.
I have the opposite opinion. These things tend to get lost in my tabs.
Pin your tab.. But I hear you, having the same problem, there are trade-offs for sure.
Or just bookmark them. They usually have the program name in the page title, on firefox just begin with * on the url bar, or press B if you have Vimium.
This approach has been around a lot longer than Electron too. Privoxy, i2p, CUPS, etc. were/are all local-first software with Web-based interfaces.
I feel the same. Wonder if the author can provide a bare-bones repository/template with Elixir and WxWidgets to create similar apps.