Desktop App

[IRHM]

In my head it sounds easy for us to bundle the frontend and backend binary together into an electron app.

It could function as it does now, but the server is accessed from localhost.

It could also optionally connect to an actual server (instead of using local server) so data can be synced.

See if there are any options that would allow us to create an app for mobile at the same time.

[DNYLA]

What do you mean by access from localhost? If this means that the desktop app would not communicate with the same server as the frontend then i think this would be a bad idea by default.

A better soloution would be when signing in users can enter a server address for the server they want to connect to which defaults to the website one. This way users don't have build their own binary executables if they want to change server but can still choose to host or connect to whatever server they want.

[IRHM]

What do you mean by access from localhost? If this means that the desktop app would not communicate with the same server as the frontend then i think this would be a bad idea by default.

A better soloution would be when signing in users can enter a server address for the server they want to connect to which defaults to the website one. This way users don't have build their own binary executables if they want to change server but can still choose to host or connect to whatever server they want.

Smart idea, It would be less confusing if by default it asked you if you want to connect to a server.

We could provide three options, Default (which connects to watcharr.lab.sbond.co server), Custom Server (provide a url to a server), Local (Spin up a server locally and save it all locally).

Not sure how the UI would look, but we can come to that when we do.