Electron
A Chromium and Node.js-based framework that allows to develop cross-platform desktop applications using Electron, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. macOS offers binary files supporting 64-bit Intel, Apple Silicon, and ARM architectures for Windows and Linux operating systems.
Electron
100electron · Desktop & Cross-Platform
- Using JavaScript, HTML and CSS, you develop desktop applications for Windows, macOS and Linux.
- With the require('electron') in the Node scripts, you can navigate the Electron binary file and start it as a subprocess.
- Using the Electron Fiddle tool, you perform small-scale trials, test code samples, and package applications.
- • High number of open issues (783)
- ↓ NegativeHacker News
Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)
“What about NW.js, It's the real hero here. They spent 5 years building up the platform, being used by thousands of companies and apps, basically inventing this technology; just to have GitHub buy up their intern and pay him to make a shitty knockoff called "atom-shell". You're…”
- ↓ NegativeHacker News
Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)
“Electron as is, consumes relatively more resources than QT and it's obvious because uses Chromium under the scene. But this is not the only reason for a slow electron based program. Code is the most important thing in any application and it's the primary cause of bad…”
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