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Well, why wait. I made a repo for "Electrino":

Sorry, it's totally empty! But I'm hoping to get around to making a Cocoa+WebKit proof-of-concept this week. I guess the starting point would be to implement just enough APIs to be able to run the main.js example from this Electron tutorial:

https://github.com/electron/electron/blob/master/docs/tutori...

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Another direction might be to extend Cordova to support macOS and Linux. Cordova already supports building UWP for Windows Desktop/Xbox/HoloLens using the native HTML+JS stack. Seems to me like a lot of existing Cordova plugins just need subtle nudges to support macOS in addition to iOS. Then you just need a good Linux solution and you cover all the desktop environments.

Then narrow the few missing desktop-focused APIs that Electron has but Cordova doesn't have good plugins for. (It would also be nice to support more Node-like background processes in Cordova and more Node-native libraries, but you would need to find a good balance that plays well with mobile.)

There's also React Native, which can work on macOS (https://github.com/ptmt/react-native-macos). I'm not sure about other operating systems, though.

Microsoft has put out an implementation for Windows, too: https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows

Update on Electrino: implemented minimal APIs to load Electron's "Hello World" example. Code is in the repo.

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