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- **High RAM consumption**: Electron apps tend to use a minimum of 80 MB of RAM, with lightweight apps in the 130-250 MB range and monsters like Slack sometimes reaching multi-GB values. - **Large storage footprint**: Shipping with a full Chromium runtime, you can expect most Electron apps to consume *at least* 150 MB of storage. - **Slow**: Some Electron apps are definitely slow, but that can depend on many factors. Overuse of animations, for example, can substantially increase the CPU usage and thus make the app feel slower. Did you notice that most desktop apps that feel snappy don’t include any animation? Just because you can with Electron, doesn’t mean you should. - **Lack of native UI/UX**: Electron renders webpages and not native controls. On one hand, that gives complete freedom to designers, but on the other, the app looks different from the “native” ones. Unsurprisingly, this complaint usually comes from macOS users, where a single “native” framework exists: Cocoa. Due to the fragmentation of GUI frameworks on other platforms (especially Windows), non-macOS users are usually more tolerant of apps not sharing the same look and feel. - **Worse security**: Compared to the average website running on your web browser, Electron apps are incredibly more powerful (and dangerous) thanks to the NodeJS integration. If not properly configured, web pages running inside Electron can gain access to the entire system, which is particularly dangerous when displaying third-party websites. Luckily, it doesn’t have to be that way, as Electron provides Context Isolation to shield the renderer from NodeJS APIs. Moreover, some believe that the NPM ecosystem is less secure than other counterparts. … In such cases, choosing the native frameworks will most likely be the best choice. That said, if you need to go cross-platform and your application is sufficiently complex, then Electron is really not bad at all compared to the alternatives, especially when done right. Of course, there are some very bloated Electron apps out there and I don’t like them either, but that’s mostly due to careless developers, not Electron.