Why Electron, though? As one of the Slack developers explains on their engineering blog: Slack is undoubtedly a cool thing and those who use it will probably agree that it’s also pretty stable and offers a coherent user experience across web, desktop and mobile. I’ve been a regular, daily Slack user for over two years now and I remember the intense and unanimous staff lobbying for migrating to Slack (the previous app used to fail just way to often and was much less powerful). At startups Slack is a must-have thing and I think it (or any other tool of that kind if you know an equally good one) would dramatically foster collaboration also in most of the ‘old fashioned’ / conservative workplaces (especially various public administration offices). In the first place let’s take a look at Slack – one of the most popular and powerful collaboration tools which, earlier this year, hit 8 million active daily users with 3 million paid ones (not bad, huh?). In this short article I’d like to take a look at a few popular tools which are built with Electron – I bet many of us don’t even realise some apps we use every day rely on Electron – and try to understand the business and technology reasons driving a particular brand while deciding to go for Electron. Sounds like yet another jingle in the “Start speaking Chinese in just 2 weeks” style? Well, even if it does, that’s not really too far from the truth.Įlectron is a framework which enables you to build native desktop apps using the common stuff: JavaScript (the most widely used programming language according to the latest StackOverflow survey), HTML and CSS. “If you can build a website, you can build a desktop app.” – this is one of the very first things you are going to read when you open the official Electron website.
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