The Discord messaging app, the Obsidian note-taking program, Docker Desktop, GitHub Desktop Slack, and Basecamp 3 are all Electron apps, as well. Some Electron examples are more … well, infamous.

Here is when Electron enters the picture to save the day. Now you want to develop a desktop application, and you don’t want to learn a new programming language, or perhaps you want to re-use as ...

For all the hate thrown at Electron, it solves an important problem: How to write truly cross-platform apps that present consistently. Electron solves this issue by using web technology to render ...

With everybody espousing "mobile-first" and "cloud-first," it has basically become a "desktop-last" development world these days. But the desktop isn't forgotten. Promising the cross-platform creation ...

Electron-Firebase provides a quickstart framework for building cloud-connected applications on Windows, macOS, and Linux. By integrating Electron and Firebase, just a few configuration settings ...

The fact that you can swap out the native layer with SwiftUI with even just a web view, which is like Electron but worse, and the performance is this much better, is hilarious. Also notice there’s a ...

All Electron apps have a config file. Buried in this is an attribute called nodeIngration. When this is set to false, access to the Node.js API and modules are deactivated by default.

The Electron team recently released the 11th iteration of the popular cross-platform native desktop application framework. Electron 11 introduces support for the new Apple silicon hardware (Darwin arm ...

Electron is a widely used open source technology for building applications, making it a particularly lucrative attack target.. In a session at the DEFCON 30 security conference in Las Vegas, security ...

In addition to the now-discontinued WhatsApp app, Electron is used in over 750 desktop apps — including Discord, Slack, Spotify, and YouTube Music.