Electron vs. Tauri
Blog The Dolt Workbench is an open-source SQL workbench supporting MySQL, Postgres, Dolt, and Doltgres databases. We built the workbench using Electron, which is a popular framework that allows you to convert web apps built with traditional web technologies like HTML, CSS, and Javascript to desktop applications. Since the workbench shares much in common with DoltHub and Hosted Dolt, the architecture is very similar to those products. That is, the workbench uses Next.js for the frontend with an additional GraphQL layer that handles database interactions. For this reason, it made a lot of sense to use Electron to get the desktop version of our application up and running. That said, Electron comes with a few rather significant drawbacks, and those drawbacks have started to become…
