Electron

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Electron is an open-source programming framework that allows developers to write and run web applications as a standalone application. Electron uses Chromium, an open-source project primarily maintained by Google, as the underlying technology to parse and render web applications. The most common criticisms of Electron are performance issues and massive software bloat, given that each application based on Electron also contains and runs Chromium.

Electron

Basic Information
Release Year	2013
Product Type	Software
In Production	Yes
Official Website	https://www.electronjs.org/

Dependency on Chromium

Due to being based on Chromium and being one of the most widely used frameworks for developing desktop applications, Electron heavily contributes to Google's monopoly in the browser market. This, unfortunately, further increases the leverage Google has on the whole industry. This also means that upstream changes by Google to the Chromium project can have impacts to projects built on Electron.

Software using Electron

Documenting a full list of all applications using Electron would be extremely tedious given the wide adoption of the framework. Some notable examples, however, are:

• Discord
• Slack
• 1Password
• WhatsApp
• Signal
• Tidal
• Visual Studio Code
• Trello
• Obsidian
• Microsoft Teams

For a more complete list (though not necessarily exhaustive), see the application directory on the Electron website.

See also

• JavaScript
• Wikipedia - Chromium (web-browser)