node-webkit – Tarik Billa

Node-Webkit vs Electron [closed]

February 2, 2023 by Tarik

Electron has a page explaining the differences with nwjs. Like NW.js, Electron provides a platform to write desktop applications with web technologies. Both platforms enable developers to utilize HTML, JavaScript, and Node.js. On the surface, they seem very similar. There are however fundamental differences between the two projects that make Electron a completely separate product … Read more

What is the Visual Studio Code editor built on

October 19, 2022 by Tarik

Visual Studio Code is built using web technologies on top of Github’s Electron. Electron is an app runtime for writing native apps that uses Chromium (which Google Chrome is built on) for rendering the interface and node.js for local APIs (example: file system access), it was built primarily as the shell for Github’s Atom code … Read more