electron / electron

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Framework for building cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, based on Node.js and Chromium.

Why you might care

Lets web developers ship macOS, Windows, and Linux desktop apps from one web codebase instead of writing native UI per platform. Visual Studio Code is built on it, and prebuilt binaries are provided for each release.

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LanguageC++

LicenseMIT

Created2013-04-12 (13y ago)

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