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JavaScript

by Rheinwerk Publishing, Inc, Philip Ackermann
September 2024
Beginner to intermediate
985 pages
35h 37m
English
Packt Publishing
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19.2    Electron

The second popular framework for creating desktop applications in JavaScript is Electron (https://electron.atom.io/). Electron was originally used by GitHub as part of the development of the Atom code editor, but it was made available to the public as a separate framework in 2013.

In principle, Electron is similar to NW.js. No wonder—one of the original developers of NW.js, who previously worked at Intel, now continues to develop Electron for GitHub. Still, there is a key difference between NW.js and Electron that is important for developers to understand: while Node.js and WebKit share a single JavaScript context in NW.js, there are multiple contexts in Electron—one for the background process that controls the application, ...

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