Build cross platform desktop apps with web technologies.

Tuesday, 10 November 2015

Good news to all web developers and designers out there, good things keep happening to us. You can now make desktop applications that will run on Windows, Mac and Linux all using one code-base. Back in the days, when making multi-platform apps, every platform's app was written in different languages. Say C# for windows, Objective C for mac or C++ for linux, that right there is a nightmare.

Along the way came Qt, which I personally love to this day. The drawback with Qt is that you need a good C++ background to make the learning curve a little simpler.

Now enter Electron. Formally know as Atom Shell, Electron is a node.js based framework that includes chromium for desktop integration. The framework is built/backed by Git Hub, which is good news if you ask me. It's also open source.

Here are a few desktop apps made with Electron.
1. Visual studio code.
2. Map Box.
3. Nuclide.
4. Git Book.
5. Microstockr.
6. Avocode.

I have started to learn this great framework and I can tell you right now, it's quite good.
To get started check out this link.
By: Unknown | On: Tuesday, 10 November 2015 | At: 12:02 |
IN: CSS, HTML5, Javascript, Web Technologies