What are some of the other solutions?

(This isn't an area i'm familiar with.)

"Better" will depend on your needs, but things to look at:

Chromium Embedded Framework https://code.google.com/p/chromiumembedded/

Atom shell (based on CEF) https://github.com/atom/atom-shell

Brackets Shell (also CEF based) https://github.com/adobe/brackets-shell

node-webkit https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit

TideSDK http://www.tidesdk.org/

More: http://www.trueinteractions.com/

You can also apparently just roll your own if you want: https://github.com/lostdecade/web_view_example

Tide Doesn't look like it's been updated in a while. Looks like it's at the same version from ~2 years ago.

They rebranded as Tidekit [0] , I've been following their Twitter account for ~ a year now, but it's still vaporware

[0] https://www.tidekit.com/

One of them is node-webkit (https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit)

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