Show HN: Electro – A hyper-fast Windows image viewer with a built-in terminal

That&#x27;s fast! It seems even faster then using mpv, even though you can&#x27;t use it like this from the command line.<p>mpv *.jpeg --shuffle --loop-playlist --image-display-duration=2.0 --fullscreen<p>I remember, 30 years ago there were similar ultrafast image viewers for DOS, they didn&#x27;t even need windows. I was partial to QPV&#x2F;386, but there were others. Linux console has fim. It was great to be able to zoom and pan with the keyboard.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nongnu.org&#x2F;fbi-improved&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nongnu.org&#x2F;fbi-improved&#x2F;</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oreilly.com&#x2F;library&#x2F;view&#x2F;png-the-definitive&#x2F;9781565925427&#x2F;11_chapter-03.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oreilly.com&#x2F;library&#x2F;view&#x2F;png-the-definitive&#x2F;9781...</a>

I share your frustration so I love that it is so fast&#x2F;lightweight, cool project. I personally don&#x27;t think I would have much use for a built-in terminal. I would just like for it to let you browse through whatever other images in the same folder from the image I opened with and be able to navigate it with the keyboard.<p>Images should also resize whenever the window is resized. Those two changes alone would make this very usable.

&gt; I was always so frustrated by how slow image viewers were on Windows<p>Irfanview was always my go-to for speed on Windows

Or you can restore the Windows 7 image viewer[0]. Works on Windows 11 still.<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tenforums.com&#x2F;tutorials&#x2F;14312-restore-windows-photo-viewer-windows-10-a.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tenforums.com&#x2F;tutorials&#x2F;14312-restore-windows-ph...</a>

Cool! Any plans for linux&#x2F;macOS?<p>I’m currently using oculante specifically for its speed, rust and cross platform.<p>Not sure this electro viewer is for me, as I see typescript and css frontend.

Is it really <i>&quot;hyperfast&quot;</i> if it&#x27;s just opening a microsoft edge webview window?<p>Is it really faster than the image viewers made 20 years ago that open a window with the win32 API?

How is it that the preview-videos showing how fast it is, is still slower at loading small image than it is for my old desktop to START feh AND display the window and image ?

Does anyone know a similar image viewer but that manage correctly the colorspace of the image and the colorspace of the screen ?

Dumb question, is there some kind of &quot;tiles&quot; view to quickly scroll through a directory of photos?

How does this work with large (i .e. ~30,000 by 40,000 pixel) 16 bit TIFF images?

Thanks a lot for your project. Have you compared the speed with JPEGView?

&quot;Hyperfast&quot; should show the startup time vs another app.

Why does Electro make multiple web requests on startup? Why does it need to make any?<p>And forcing windows to make your app a default, without asking the user about it at install time - not cool.