Doing work locally minimizes problems with Electron apps

If you use Visual Studio Code, you might be used to good integration of developer tools with a backend node server. While you could run the server separately yourself and tell Electron to connect to a process owned by VS Code, I find it much simpler to reuse Electron’s developer tools which are already there. This article focused on the tech benefits of using a backend server and developing a 100% local app, but it doesn’t even go into other benefits like being available regardless of network connection.

Source: jlongster.com