Electron
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If you can build a website, you can build a desktop app. Electron is a framework for creating native applications with web technologies like JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. It takes care of the hard parts so you can focus on the core of your application.
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- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
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Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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It is a brown knight in the sea of sh**e. It's bloat but you cant design apk's without being bundled, walled, sworn a blood-oath, plucked 7 android feathers and stay sane. The android "eco-system" is gardened by Molok itself.
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Build cross platform desktop apps with web technologies
Formerly known as Atom Shell.
With Electron, creating a desktop application for your company or idea is easy. Initially developed for GitHub's Atom editor, Electron has since been used to create applications by companies like Microsoft, Facebook, Slack, Docker and Ruvenss IT Consulting Services.
Most of the programs created with this are too memory intensive.
It is a brown knight in the sea of sh**e. It's bloat but you cant design apk's without being bundled, walled, sworn a blood-oath, plucked 7 android feathers and stay sane. The android "eco-system" is gardened by Molok itself.
The worst invention ever. Chromium + NodeJS provide better cross-platform ability, but these two monsters also consume too much memory and disk space.
From a developer point of view, the biggest advantage is the possibility for small teams of using established and widely known web technologies to distribute a cross-platform app without much knowledge about native platform APIs. That comes at the cost of sort of having a complete Chrome browser running for every Electron app which is anything but fast or efficient. Really slow compared to native code. And it is unrealistic to provide a user experience which is consistent with established patterns - per platform.
As a user I started trying to avoid Electron-based apps because usually their user experience is bad due to their technological overhead. Widely known chat clients lag and consume an irrational amount of memory because of using this technology, even though the do only simple things. That is a use case that worked smoother years or even decades ago with much slower and more constrained resources.
Electron is very easy to use, and its very easy to deploy using electron-builder.
It's very hard to optimize Electron apps, because it's basically a browser. There's no point in having another browser running on your computer than spending a bit more time making a native app with Qt or some other cross-platform framework.