There's plenty of magic. I think that Electron Forge does too many things, like trying to be the bundler. Is it possible to set up a custom build system / bundling with it or are you forced to use Vite? I guess that even if you can, you pull all those dependencies when you install it and naturally you can't opt out from that. Those dev dependencies involved in the build process are higher impact than some production dependencies that run in a sandboxed tab process (because a tiny malicious dependency could insert any code into the app's fully privileged process). I have not shipped my app yet, but I am betting on ESBuild (because it's just one Go binary) and Electron Builder (electron.build)
There's plenty of magic. I think that Electron Forge does too many things, like trying to be the bundler. Is it possible to set up a custom build system / bundling with it or are you forced to use Vite? I guess that even if you can, you pull all those dependencies when you install it and naturally you can't opt out from that. Those dev dependencies involved in the build process are higher impact than some production dependencies that run in a sandboxed tab process (because a tiny malicious dependency could insert any code into the app's fully privileged process). I have not shipped my app yet, but I am betting on ESBuild (because it's just one Go binary) and Electron Builder (electron.build)