Electron
Build cross platform desktop apps with web technologies
- Free • Open Source
- Desktop Publisher
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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What is Electron?
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.
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, and Docker.
- Electron uses Chromium and Node.js so you can build your app with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
- Electron is an open source project maintained by GitHub and an active community of contributors.
- Compatible with Mac, Windows, and Linux, Electron apps build and run on three platforms.
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, and Docker.
- Electron uses Chromium and Node.js so you can build your app with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
- Electron is an open source project maintained by GitHub and an active community of contributors.
- Compatible with Mac, Windows, and Linux, Electron apps build and run on three platforms.
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Our users have written 5 comments and reviews about Electron, and it has gotten 98 likes
- Developed by OpenJS Foundation
- Open Source and Free product.
- Average rating of 3.2
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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.
I started an electron course before a few days and I have to say that framework or how you wanna call that is awesome!
Most of the programs created with this are too memory intensive.
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.
It's slow on starting apps.
This problem can be solved by a background daemon which would run on startup; so each app wouldn't download electron resources again. That might make it super fast.