All Skills🔥 Tier 2
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Electron Apps
Category
⚡ Tech
Salary Impact
Complexity
Medium
Used in
All careers
Electron is a framework combining Chromium (browser rendering engine) and Node.js (JavaScript runtime) to build desktop applications. Developers write HTML/CSS/JavaScript, Electron packages it as a desktop app for Windows, macOS, Linux. Electron makes web developers productive at building desktop apps. Slack (desktop), Discord (desktop), VS Code are Electron apps. Each is web app code inside an Electron shell.