How I Built Native Desktop Apps with React and Deno — No Node, No Webpack
I love building UIs in React. I do not love the moment a "quick desktop app" idea turns into a node_modules black hole, a webpack config I'm scared to touch, and an Electron bundle the size of a small operating system. So I built a boilerplate that lets me ship a real signed desktop app using just React and Deno. Spinning up a desktop app the "normal" way usually means: Wrestling with Node + webpack/Vite config before you write a single feature Pulling in hundreds of MB of node_modules for a win
