Things people get wrong about Electron

How suitable is electron-browser-shell for building products on? · samuelmaddock electron-browser-shell · Discussion #129

Fantastic work, thanks for making this 🙏🏼 The readme has basic information about the code, but not much about the broader project, goals, funding, etc. Do you want companies to use this as a base f...

Why did the web take over desktop and not mobile?

TLDR: “make the web do apps” is not a disruptive strategy. It's like surviving The Great Oxidation Event, then saying “make anaerobes do photosynthesis”. Ok, but the blue-green algae got there first, so photosynthesis is no longer asymmetric. It is symmetric competition.

Electron Spins: a special case of Chromium mods | Little Bear Labs

John's a dev who likes to build to last; most known for his work in native-compiling languages like Rust & C++. Dive deep or collaborate: why not both?

Windows Native App Development Is a Mess

I tried to build a Windows native app using Microsoft's latest technologies. Now I understand why everyone builds Electron apps.

Announcing Supporters of Chromium-based Browsers

Since Google announced the Chromium project in 2008, we have been excited to build on the great foundations of open-source web browsers and contribute to the continued d…

samuelmaddock/electron-browser-shell

A minimal, tabbed web browser with support for Chrome extensions—built on Electron.

Why build a new browser? From intuition to reality - Blog | Lightpanda

Three years ago when we started Lightpanda, we asked ourselves a seemingly simple question what would a browser look like if it were built specifically for automation?

Claude is an Electron App because we’ve lost native

Article argues that Claude is not an Electron app not because LLMs can’t do it, but because there are no advantages left for native

Web Components Are Not the Future

A few years ago I wrote an article suggesting that Web Components might not be the most beneficial...

Tauri vs. Electron: performance, bundle size, and the real trade-offs

A breakdown of the choice between Tauri and Electron for cross-platform apps, backed by practical comparisons and benchmark data.

Migrating from BrowserView to WebContentsView | Electron

BrowserView has been deprecated since Electron 30 and is replaced by WebContentView. Thankfully, migrating is fairly painless.

Datastar: Modern web dev, simplified

You love building web apps with Python, and HTMX got you excited about the hypermedia approach -- let the server drive the HTML, skip the JavaScript build step, keep things simple. But then you hit that last 10%: You need Alpine.js for interactivity, your state gets out of sync, and suddenly you're juggling two unrelated libraries that weren't designed to work together. What if there was a single 11-kilobyte framework that gave you everything HTMX and Alpine do, and more, with real-time updates, multiplayer collaboration out of the box, and performance so fast you're actually bottlenecked by the monitor's refresh rate? That's Datastar. On this episode, I sit down with its creator Delaney Gillilan, core maintainer Ben Croker, and Datastar convert Chris May to explore how this backend-driven, server-sent-events-first framework is changing the way full-stack developers think about the modern web.