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Guessing it’s an Electron app, in which case it’s more along the lines of a desktop-packaged website.

Quokka.js works nicely in vscode which means I'm only running one electron app not two (not that I care about electron memory usage, as long as the application feels fast I don't mind if it's 15Mb of memory or 150Mb, I have 32768 in my laptops and 65536 in my desktops).

Quokka works in the IntelliJ family of IDEs as well.

8192 MiB, or even 4096 MiB in a laptop is still common nowadays, and single Electron apps using 256 MiB is not unusual.

Why's it Mac-only if it's Electron?

Even if it's Electron you still need to package a binary for each platform...

Does node not support cross compiling??

It does, but it takes effort and I believe that Windows compiling is hard work on Mac.

Depends on what you use to package. With electron packager (https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-packager) it's really easy and fast to package on a Mac for Windows and Linux. The only real pain for multi-platform packaging is that you need to have a certificate both for Mac and Windows.

It's not hard at all to compile and build a package for Windows on Mac.

On the other hand, want to add an icon to your Windows app from a Mac? Jump down the rabbit hole of installing Wine and other dependencies and watch it spend minutes trying to invoke rc-edit.exe on Mac to make it work.

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