A great number of popular applications use Electron. Visual Studio Code, the text editor and configurable IDE, is one example.The Discord messaging app, the Obsidian note-taking program, Docker ...

Recently, JavaScript founder Brendan Eich cited Electron as a tool his new company, browser maker Brave Software, has used in building its technology. Version 1.0 is available at electron.atom.io .

The recent Electron 8.0, 8.1, and 8.2 releases make significant improvements to their framework for building cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Highlights in these releases in ...

Electron 11 additionally uses Chromium 87.0.4280.47, the JavaScript runtime Node v12.18.3, and the JavaScript engine V8 v8.7. The release includes numerous bug fixes and performance improvements.

A team of researchers recently presented data about vulnerabilities in apps built on the open source Electron framework for creating desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML and CSS. In that camp are Visual ...