Gluon

Minimal library and integrated ecosystem for making "desktop apps" from websites easily using Chromium and NodeJS. Uses system installed Chromium and NodeJS, with optional bundling if you want that too (soon). VERY early and probably never finished/production ready. Not an Electron alternative, mostly.

Ecosystem

Gluon: the Gluon library (NodeJS)
Glugun: builds Gluon apps into releasable builds with optional bundling (soon)

Apps

Glucord: minimal Discord client loading official webapp (demo/example)

Comparison

Internals

Part	Electron	Gluon
Frontend	Self-contained Chromium	System installed Chromium
Backend	Self-contained Node.JS	System installed Node.JS
IPC	Electron's Internal API	Gluon's API via CDP
Status	Production ready	Early in development
Ecosystem	Distributed (many separate projects)	Integrated

Stats

Stat	Electron	Gluon
Build Size	~190MB	~2MB¹²

Release Schedule

Gluon (and it's subprojects) use a major.patch version format, with major releases being released at ~22:00 UTC daily if there are changes present in main, while using X.0-dev in the meantime. Patch releases may happen inbetween to fix bugs (not adding anything new or breaking).

Does not include system installed components ↩︎
Early/WIP data, can be reduced in future ↩︎

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