Add desktop versions For Win/MacOS/Linux with Electron/Tauri

[tomchen]

The web app works fine in modern browsers. But add desktop versions just for the sake of completeness.

The game runs very well in Google Chrome (and browsers with Chrome's engine), a bit slow in Firefox & Safari (depends on the machine though), and doesn't work in legacy browsers. An Electron app can help non Chrome users.

See electron branch

• Windows
• MacOS
• Linux

Edit: May consider Tauri instead of Electron

[aiqc]

From a product development perspective, I'd hold off on broader compatibility this until the release lifecycle slows down. Unless you have a totally automated release process, it is burdensome to have to push little updates to different platforms.

I am primarily a linux user myself, but I could see supporting different flavors of linux being a challenge. Flatpak/flathub could help with that.

[tomchen]

From a product development perspective, I'd hold off on broader compatibility this until the release lifecycle slows down. Unless you have a totally automated release process, it is burdensome to have to push little updates to different platforms.

I am primarily a linux user myself, but I could see supporting different flavors of linux being a challenge. Flatpak/flathub could help with that.

Sure, if it has no CI I'll just say in README oh it is "always new" and not expected to be updated which is exactly what I did 😄

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Anyway it'll be just a wrapped web app which I don't see anyone really need - they can just run it in browser, any OS, PC or mobile. And Electron app will easily get to over 100MB while the real code and assets are under 10MB.

But Tauri, a new Electron alternative, is a nice thing, it adds less than 10MB, it compiles for not only all PC OSes but also Android and iOS. Could try it.