Chrome Apps were ahead of their time and poorly explained. The explosion of Electron apps like Atom and Slack shows that there is a need and a want to package w

Chrome Apps were ahead of their time and poorly explained. The explosion of Electron apps like Atom and Slack shows that there is a need and a want to package web apps using a shared container, so they don’t all have to ship their own version of Chrome. I predict we will soon see some sort of Electron runtime that multiple apps can share that will be essentially the same thing as Chrome apps.