WebUSB for offline app can be enabled with Electron 23

[spacevoyager78]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Reading https://github.com/microsoft/pxt-microbit/issues/5306, I saw that connecting to micro:bit was disabled for the offline electron app.

Describe the solution you'd like According to https://www.electronjs.org/blog/electron-23-0#new-features and https://stackoverflow.com/a/77883191, Electron supports WebUSB from version 23, which was released a year ago. Can we have the functionality of connecting to micro:bit available for offline app?

[spacevoyager78]

Is this possible to implement with current Electron version? We have an unstable internet connection and having to teach 10 year-olds how to save everytime they make a change and drag a file to microbit is very cumbersome.

[spacevoyager78]

I guess there is no interest in this...