The Browser That Powers Apps … Meet Electron
And, so, Electron has helped developers, but is it the same old story, of bolting the barn door, after the horse has bolted?
You generally know what a browser looks like, and that it never quite achieves the same levels of security and performance as a native App. But, there’s a good chance you are using the Electron browser and framework for many of your applications:
The full list is here, so be ready to scroll down …
https://www.electronjs.org/apps
We can see that WhatsApp, Slack and Signal use it, along with Microsoft using it for Visual Studio Code, Teams and Skype. The advantages are obvious, and where a company can support a wide range of operating systems and environments, without worrying about native code. It also helps with easy installs, and where the whole of the code base is built on just HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Along with this, it is open source. It is thus hinting to a future world, and where whole systems just run in a browser — and it might just be the Electron browser.
