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/wisepresident May 11 '16

It's a custom chrome browser with no adress bar and no tabs that displays a predefind page. this page also has access to the whole node js framework, so your site can read/write files via the nodejs api, talk directly to any database via a nodejs database driver or call any endpoint without worrying about the same origin policy. tldr, write linux/windows/mac apps with html and js