Native Windows apps used to be fast, efficient, and everywhere. Now, it's all just a website in a Chromium wrapper.

Electron exists for a good reason: building native apps for Windows, macOS, and Linux is a pain. Every platform has its own UI toolkit, its own quirks, its own packaging system. Electron promises an ...

Windows 11 apps like Discord, WhatsApp, and Teams now use 1 to 4GB of RAM because they are web apps and the rising RAM prices ...

Electron is a popular framework for building cross-platform desktop applications using web technologies. The tool was created by GitHub, and is the basis of several popular apps like Slack, Visual ...

If you are like me, you love JavaScript and its ecosystem, and you have been building amazing web applications using frameworks like React or performant web servers with NodeJS. Now you want to ...

A team of researchers recently presented data about vulnerabilities in apps built on the open source Electron framework for creating desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML and CSS. In that camp are Visual ...

LAS VEGAS—The Electron development platform is a key part of many applications, thanks to its cross-platform capabilities. Based on JavaScript and Node.js, Electron has been used to create client ...

An application shell for apps built using Web technologies, Electron lets developers use Node.js to build and run desktop applications GitHub’s Electron is rapidly gaining popularity for building ...

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 ...

I’ve been using a Pixelbook over the past week, checking out the new Linux application functionality. It’s not ready for prime time, but it’s a billion times better than the last time I tried to run ...