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tinyjs Agency Implementation, Building Lightweight Desktop Apps

Learn how to architect and deliver native desktop applications using tinyjs for clients across macOS, Windows, and Linux. This course covers project scoping, backend system access setup, RPC communication patterns, and packaging workflows to build 6 MB apps that compete with Electron while keeping your delivery timeline and client download friction minimal.

Open the decision record for tinyjs

What does running tinyjs for clients commit you to?

Published figures for this service. Blank fields are not published.

Monthly tool cost
Vendor cost basis: tinyjs is open-source, so the lowest plan price is $0 / Not published as a paid tier. The agency must supply labor cost for JavaScript development, packaging, and signing; no setup fees or paid tiers are published in the data.
Time to first value
Not published, setup complexity is low and time to value is hours, but no explicit duration is given.
Payback
Not modeled, client price, labor cost, usage cost, overhead, and expected volume are not supplied.
Guided implementation
8 hours

Is tinyjs worth running as a client service?

The evidence supports tinyjs as a lightweight, JavaScript-only desktop framework your agency can deliver as a managed service with low setup complexity and hours-to-first-value. What remains unknown is the client-side price, your labor economics, paid vendor tiers, and production readiness on Windows and Linux (both beta), so ROI and margins cannot be modeled from this data alone.

An agency-fit judgement for reselling this service. It is separate from the tool description on the decision record.

Before you start

What has to be in place before the first client engagement.

Tools and subscriptions

  • tinyjs CLI (from the open-source project)
  • txiki.js runtime (bundled with tinyjs for the backend)
  • Native webview targets: WebKit (macOS), WebView2 (Windows), WebKitGTK (Linux)
  • JavaScript/TypeScript source code and a frontend framework such as Vite, React, Vue, Svelte, or Solid
  • Code-signing and notarization certificates for macOS (and equivalent for Windows/Linux)

People and inputs

  • Developer with JavaScript expertise sufficient to write a txiki.js backend and a webview frontend
  • Access to the tinyjs skill-file generation so coding agents can understand the API
  • Test machines or VMs for macOS, Windows, and Linux to validate the three platform targets
  • Zero-port RPC model using a private temp dir Unix socket, no network port allocation needed

Included with the course

7 working documents for delivering this service.

  • tinyjs Project Scoping Worksheetworksheet
  • Desktop App Architecture Decision Treeguide
  • tinyjs Backend System Access Checklistchecklist
  • RPC Communication Setup Templatetemplate
  • App Packaging and Signing SOPsop
  • Client Delivery Handoff Checklistchecklist
  • Hosted App Wrapping Workflow Guideguide

Listed by name. These documents are not yet published as individual downloads.