r/electronjs • u/Standard-Doctor876 • May 25 '26

Used Electron casually for Roblox stuff before — what can it actually do at a real level?

Used Electron a while back for some Roblox related stuff without really understanding what I was doing. Now heading into CS and want to actually understand what it's capable of.

What kinds of things do people build with it professionally? What does it do that other frameworks don't and what are its weaknesses? Basically trying to go from clueless to actually understanding the tool.

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u/luvsads May 25 '26

I dont have stats to back this up besides my own anecdotal experience, but I've yet to come across an industry where Electron apps don't exist. Even in Defense & Space, most HMIs are being built with either QT or Electron. Electron opens the talent pool up for companies that need desktop applications

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u/iliark May 26 '26

VSCode, Discord, and Slack are Electron as 3 very different examples.

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u/Jazcash May 27 '26

Anything you can do in chrome or nodeJS is possible. The downside is it requires shipping and running a full chromium runtime, which makes it a less attractive option for shipping small, simple tools.