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How to License and Distribute an Electron App
2 months ago
- The article explains how to license and distribute a commercial Electron app using Keygen's API.
- It covers building a basic Electron app, adding a license gate with validation, and handling expired licenses to allow perpetual fallback.
- Auto-updates are integrated using electron-builder and electron-updater with license key authentication.
- Finally, the app is published via Keygen Dist using a product token and the dist script.
Family Feud: Mac-assed Mac App Edition
2 months ago
- Apple is best positioned to make world-class Mac apps since they design the Mac itself.
- Despite having resources and AI prowess, Anthropic's Claude Desktop is an Electron app, not a native Mac app.
- Large companies like Adobe and Google tend to produce Electron apps instead of high-quality native Mac apps.
- There is a correlation between company size/revenue and lack of 'Mac-assed Mac app-edness', possibly due to a lack of care.
The Electron view that stayed blank until you resized the window
2 months ago
- Embedding Chromium via WebContentsView causes native view to be always on top, requiring hiding and showing when overlays open.
- Zero-size views lose compositor surfaces; fixing by parking at 1×1 pixels instead.
- Long hides evict frames; restoring requires two-step size changes across event loop turns.
- React effect cleanup and dedup cache bugs can cause blank views by preventing proper bounds updates.
- Debugging must target the actual failing layer, as app screenshots may mislead about on-screen blankness.
Claude's Criminally Bad Electron Mac App Is an Inside Job
3 months ago
- Anthropic's Claude desktop app for MacOS is built on Electron, which is criticized for not providing a native Mac experience.
- The article suggests that despite Anthropic's advancements in AI coding tools like Claude Code, the team chose Electron due to engineers' familiarity, particularly Felix Rieseberg, a key Electron developer.
- The post argues that Electron limits app functionality and performance, citing examples like Notion migrating to SwiftUI for better performance, and questions why Claude hasn't followed suit.

electron

How to License and Distribute an Electron App

Family Feud: Mac-assed Mac App Edition

The Electron view that stayed blank until you resized the window

Claude's Criminally Bad Electron Mac App Is an Inside Job