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How Electron Was Born
- hultner 9y agoInteresting read, Electron get's a lot of hate but it's enabling a new category of applications. Incidentally a few years back I were building a web based procurment-platform for swedish government nearing the finish line of the project a requirement arose to run it as a native executable through some sort of Citrix VM (because of government reasons). I remember embedding the frontend of the SPA into a few different web engines (XUL, webkit, etc) and ended up using an embedded Chromium instance (CEF) for getting the best JS performance (we're handling some large amounts of data). I remembered Electro/Atom Shell being released that same spring/summer where I handed over the project (now in production) and recommended looking into it as a replacement for our embedded Chromium, I think if Electron were available earlier I could have saved a great amount of hurdle under a high pressure time.