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SMRTR Programming• Sep 1, 2026• Hacker News

TinyJS – small apps on Win/Mac/Linux

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TinyJS is a framework for building cross-platform desktop apps in roughly 6 MB — no Electron, no bundled Chromium, no HTTP ports. It uses the OS's native webview and a JavaScript backend powered by txiki.js, giving full system access (files, sockets, SQLite, FFI) via a Unix socket. It supports React, Vue, Svelte, and TypeScript, with hot reload and native menus built in.

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