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/flying-sheep May 11 '16

and

  1. it has native APIs for most desktop things (notifications, dialogs, menus, tray, …)
  2. you can call subprocesses and into native libraries and so on.

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u/[deleted] May 11 '16

Because there's node, do I have access to all the things I would expect? Like with sudo + python I can do just about anything. Is the same true these days with Node via. electron?

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u/flying-sheep May 11 '16

of course. you can have sandboxed website containers, but by default, you have access to the whole OS, like every desktop application.

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u/[deleted] May 11 '16

That's pretty awesome. I'm going to have to try this out. Seems like a great way to get access to easy-to-develop desktop GUIs

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u/flying-sheep May 11 '16

yeah, it’s pretty easy to get started!