Show pagesourceBack to top Share via Share via... Twitter LinkedIn Telegram Yammer RedditRecent ChangesSend via e-MailPrintPermalink × Table of Contents criticism resource usage security Notable Electron Apps see also Electron Electron is a development framework to create apps based on a web browser and web technologies. criticism Electron: The bad parts – Philipp Langhans @ hackernoon.com In defense of Electron – Mo Bitar @ dev.to resource usage Since Electron based apps run a full web browser in the background, the resource usage is often not comparable to similar apps written in other frameworks. Electron is Flash for the desktop security Even though the underlying browser framework gets patched quickly when security issues arise, many developers of Electron-based apps don't rebase their applications on the newer Electron version. Notable Electron Apps Riot.im – chat client for the [matrix] network Balena Etcher – burn ISOs to USB sticks vscodium – IDE (although their Electron is heavily patched and pretty fast) see also awesome-electron – somehow, some people think Electron wasn't a mistake. Last modified: 2020-03-19 20:02