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Make this an Electron App

Open brianbancroft opened this issue 7 years ago • 2 comments

Not all PostGIS users are web developers.

As late as 2015, I had no idea what build tooling was. NPM, HTTP Servers, not to mention front-end architectures. For those people who want the means to use this as a straightforward tool to preview and test PostGIS queries on a local database, we should think about making this an Electron App.

I have no idea how we should tackle this, and I don't believe this should be on our roadmap for 0.2

https://electronjs.org/

brianbancroft avatar Aug 05 '18 17:08 brianbancroft

I support this, we'd need to add configuration UI, and I don't know how any of that works with electron (can you just do localstorage as usual? Is it bad to store database credentials in localstorage if it's only running locally?)

chriswhong avatar Aug 05 '18 23:08 chriswhong

I love this idea. Agree that it shouldn't be on the roadmap for 0.2 but I think it is worth doing and I'd be willing to work on it.

jczaplew avatar Aug 07 '18 12:08 jczaplew