Large scale app using Electron

Questions
#1

So it seems possible to run three.js in electron for model viewing.

What about a large scale game? Would this be a waste of my time to try?

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#2

I think @Usnul said in an old thread that he was making an Electron app with Might is Right to publish it on Steam, I wonder if it succeeded ?

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#3

Hey there, yeah, i did manage to integrate electron into my build process. Took a few days to figure it out, steam integration was the biggest pain, because you need electron to behave a certain way for it. Itā€™s quite straight forward actually, just takes time to read the documentation for the most part.

I donā€™t know if you could call my game large-scale or not, it does have some 2Gb of assets, so itā€™s not particularly ā€œsmallā€, the ā€œoptimizedā€ version is about 350Mb of assets. The code itself is rather compact, there is 150k or so lines of JS code before minification and tree shaking.

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#4

Great! Good to here (and congratulations). Thank you!

Have you tried nwjs (formerly node-webkit)?

Iā€™m trying to decide between the two.

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#5

no, i havenā€™t tried nw, i guess it works similarly well. I made a decision based on popularity and ease of integration. Electron seemed like a better choice, but I came into it already leaning toward Electron - so Iā€™m pretty biased.

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#6

Right on. I started doing integration with nwjs, got a 3d scene loaded and running well!

I suppose if I ever need to change, the concept between the two is similar enough.

Thanks again Usnul =]

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