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zacmps on Oct 5, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Calibre 4.0

I just use chrome for this:

chrome.exe --app="https://url.of.calibre.web"

Removes the top bar and shows the favicon as the application icon. You can create a shortcut/.desktop and it'll act pretty much like an electron app would.

jrochkind1 on Oct 7, 2019 [–]

But you still gotta run the 'web app' somewhere, responding on some port (even if only on localhost)?

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