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Category: Disadvantages

  • Cross Platform Builds, Really?

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    Yes its true. You will have to make your app cross platform. It won’t become cross platform on its own. If your app has native dependencies, it can be compiled only on the target platform. For example macOS code Signing works only on MacOS.

  • Code Protection

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    Who will not like their code to be safe and by safe I mean ‘not getting stolen’. The files aren’t encrypted which means that anyone can get a working copy of the code.

  • Size Matters

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    saqibkhan
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    As you all know that Electron Apps run on Chromium, this means that each and every Electron App comes with its own version of Chromium. More worse Chromium is made of 20 million lines of code which is nearly the size of a whole Operating System! So it is like installing a whole Operating System on top…