I don't see it being discussed much when Electron comes up, so I'll share some of the use cases that led our company to move at least one of our web apps to Ele

I don't see it being discussed much when Electron comes up, so I'll share some of the use cases that led our company to move at least one of our web apps to Electron. We provide a B2B service that relies on communication with a locally installed service running on the users machine. This kind of approach is one that has been heavily bombarded with new features and deprecations leaning towards a more secure web by most browser vendors, which is actually very justifiable. The most recent one was Chrome targeting to restrict app cache usage, which we rely on currently, only to documents served through HTTPS. Given that we have an app that uses a local service that needs to work offline, we cannot use HTTPS for that without messing with stuff that needs Administrator privileges, which we really want to avoid because headaches. So we figured we need a more flexible approach that is not so restricted as a web app living on the browser, but we already have a product. Here comes Electron, and in a couple weeks work, mostly testing things, we have it. We now deploy both to the web (just in case) and are rolling customers to the desktop. Other features that added a lot of value where: - No localStorage limit, was starting to become an issue, now we have breathing room to migrate to other storage - Auto Update, actually took care a long time complaint for the necessity to keep downloading new versions of the local running server, which we now package alongside the app - node process running directly on the client opens up a lot of new possibilities