Electron (formerly known as Atom Shell[1]) is the main framework behind two notable open source software: Github Atom (text editor)[2] and Microsoft Visual Studio Code.[3] Github Electron is an open source framework developed by Github.[4] Electron allows the Development of desktop GUI application by using Node.js framework which is originally used for development of backend web applications.
References
- ^ Sawicki, Kevin (April 23, 2015). "Atom Shell is now Electron". Atom. Retrieved 2015-12-02.
- ^ https://github.com/atom/atom
- ^ James, Mike (23 November 2015). "Visual Studio Code - Now With Added Extensions". I Programmer. Retrieved 2015-12-02.
- ^ https://github.com/atom/electron