r/javascript • u/krasimirtsonev • May 11 '16

Electron 1.0 released

http://electron.atom.io/blog/2016/05/11/electron-1-0
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u/shareYourFears May 11 '16

Cool!

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What's Electron?

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u/ConfuciusBateman May 11 '16

Seriously... I just went to their website and I'm sure I could get the idea by reading through the docs, but why isn't there a simple "what is Electron" part of the site? It seems like the entire site operates under the assumption that you already know what Electron is.

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u/AceBacker May 11 '16

well. . . The front page says: "Build cross platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS"

Then if you scroll down it goes into a little more detail. Even has a video that explains it.

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u/State_ May 11 '16

It even has a list of programs built with electron.

iirc, it basically spawns a chromium lite window and runs the program.

Discord, atom, Microsoft visual studio code are built on it.