I just updated my Node-RED Desktop application to Node-RED version 5. If you primarily use Node-RED on Windows, it's worth checking out; you can run Node-RED in a completely portable way.
Thanks for sharing;
Did you try Tauri before? this too much light weight operating system than Electron. Currently, I am using Electron but am planning to move to Tauri.
Perhaps it is also worth to take a look at bun + electrobun.
In my particular use case for Node-RED Desktop running and managing multiple Node-RED projects from a single executable in industrial automation environments Electron still makes a lot of sense. Since it ships with the Node.js runtime, I get full compatibility with Node-RED and the entire Node.js ecosystem out of the box.
That said, if I were starting from scratch today, I'd probably pick a cross-platform desktop framework that doesn't depend on web technologies. The downside is that I'd still need to bundle the Node.js binary to preserve the same level of compatibility with Node-RED.
