You can do an Electron app without electron! This is how you run different browsers in chrome-less mode: iexplore -k %URL%, firefox -chrome %URL%, chrome --app

You can do an Electron app without electron! This is how you run different browsers in chrome-less mode: iexplore -k %URL%, firefox -chrome %URL%, chrome --app="%URL%" Launch nodejs, then launch the browser, and for the features not supported in the browser, have it talk to nodejs. You now have both a desktop app and a cloud app if you like. You could basically have the exact same code running on for example Github.com and on the desktop. There are advantages with Electron/nw.js though, like only having to support one "browser" that makes it possible to use bleeding edge features.