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Electron (for Those Living Under a Rock)

Electron has become one of the most popular cross-platform frameworks over the past few years. It’s about to hit over 100k stars on GitHub, just for reference. The idea behind it is pretty cool to this day: developers create a project in a single codebase that’ll work in any desktop platform (Windows, macOS, Linux, etc.) by rendering HTML/CSS and running JavaScript on a Chromium engine. Heck, you’re probably running an app built using Electron right now (Discord, Slack, Visual Studio Code, Atom, Twitch, the list goes on).

From Electronjs.org (P.S. Microsoft Teams is ditching Electron omegalul)

This framework sounds too good to be true. That’s because it is. Electron, being as popular as it is, is also one of the most hated technologies out there. Or at least, a lot of Medium writers think so…

Why not to build an electron app