My personal take on using electron if the following: If you are creating a big app that gets a lot of attention from the user electron is fine. If you are creat

My personal take on using electron if the following: If you are creating a big app that gets a lot of attention from the user electron is fine. If you are creating a little tool running in the background, electron doesn't work so well because it often uses a lot of memory. So, building a chat application with electron is bad and your main text editor for your dev work in electron is totally fine. Ultimately, the deciding factor should be your users, is it best for them that you use electron or are they better of, if you are using a different solution. Something else to consider are your development skills. If you never worked with something else than web technologies, electron is hard to beat in terms of dev experience.