What is Electron?
Electron is an open-source framework for building cross-platform applications with the modern web technology stack: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
It is developed and maintained by GitHub Inc. and has had an active community of contributors since it appeared and was released on July 15, 2013 (its first commit appeared in April 2013) as part of the Atom editor, a free and open-source code editor for Linux, Windows, and macOS. Initially, it was called Atom Shell until GitHub renamed it Electron and started shipping it as a separate project.
The secret sauce of Electron is a combination of Chromium, an open-source project behind the Google Chrome browser and Google Chrome OS, and Node.js, a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's ...
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