I mean that you can hire developers who, due to their inexperience, know just enough to make one very specific kind of thing, and that thing is a certain type of SPA frontend (e.g. "React developers", sort of like "Java developers"). Because they only have this one skill, and because "web SPA frontend developer" is in-demand enough for a decent supply pipeline of them to have formed (of "code bootcamps" et al), the junior ones are relatively cheap to hire.
You can then have someone with more experience "box up" that web SPA frontend in an Electron wrapper, in a way that will generally last a good while.
(This is, AFAIK, precisely the approach taken by teams like Spotify, where the Electron app has no extra functionality beyond what you'd get from the web app.)
Of course, developers generally age out of only having one skill, so this is sort of the programming equivalent of an "intern job": not something anyone would stay in for more than the length of an internship, and something that you just constantly pump new people through.
Aha, sorry I have totally misinterpreted that then, here's an up-vote :) I sort of got super sensitive when it comes to people underrating the huge amount of skills that are required to be a front-end developer.
You can then have someone with more experience "box up" that web SPA frontend in an Electron wrapper, in a way that will generally last a good while.
(This is, AFAIK, precisely the approach taken by teams like Spotify, where the Electron app has no extra functionality beyond what you'd get from the web app.)
Of course, developers generally age out of only having one skill, so this is sort of the programming equivalent of an "intern job": not something anyone would stay in for more than the length of an internship, and something that you just constantly pump new people through.