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# electrino

A desktop runtime for apps built on web technologies, using the system's own web browser engine.
An experimental desktop runtime for apps built on web technologies, using the system's own web browser engine. The project is still young and accepting contributions.

Electrino is an experimental featherweight alternative to the popular and powerful [Electron](https://github.com/electron/electron). It implements a minuscule portion of the APIs available in Electron, but the output app size is much smaller.
Electrino aims to be a featherweight alternative to the popular and powerful [Electron](https://github.com/electron/electron). It implements a minuscule portion of the APIs available in Electron, but the output app size is much smaller.

A "Hello World" app takes 115 MB using Electron, but only 167 kB using Electrino:

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Small output size | No | Yes
Cross-platform support | Yes | Limited to macOS and Windows 10 at this time

### Supported API's
### Contribute

- [x] Integrate `WebView`
- [ ] Support `require()` calls
- [ ] Add Node.js backend

### API

Electrino currently supports the following API implementations:

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