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Electron
An open-source framework for creating native applications with web-technologies like JavaScript, CSS & HTML. It is based on Node.js and Chromium and is used by the Atom editor and many other apps. Focused on desktop cross-platform development.
| First released | 2013 |
| Developed by | Cheng Zhao (now it is developed by GitHub) |
| Latest stable version | Electron v18 |
| Open-source | Yes |
| Used by | Microsoft, Facebook, Slack, Docker |
Interesting facts
Atom was a game-changer for desktop apps. GitHub started development of Atom in 2013, soon recruited Cheng Zhao, and forked node-webkit as its base, which it later open-sourced under the name atom-shell. In 2015, atom-shell was renamed Electron.