Hi all. I'm Tarwin. I've been working on TinyJS for about 6 weeks now. I was sick of installing 500mb Electron apps for every little utility. The last straw was Harvest updating from 5mb to 500mb in latest release. Tauri exists (and it's great) but I wanted something that was JS first. So I built this on top of txikijs, a tools that includes QuickJS and SQLite already. TinyJS does what it says it does. Small apps that can do almost anything. 100% JS. As part of building a tool like this I also built a lot of example apps, to test and understand required functionality on all three systems. The…

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