Electron was first developed by GitHub in 2013, with the goal of enabling JavaScript developers to build desktop apps that would run on Windows, Mac, and Linux computers.

Electron, GutHub’s open source framework for cross-platform development of desktop applications, has reached 1.0 release status this week. Spun off GitHub’s Atom editor and previously known as ...

Tool combines the Electron framework and a shared JavaScript runtime to create lightweight “sketches” with native app capabilities ...

In August 2018, Electron developer Felix Rieseberg released a new Electron project on GitHub called Windows 95 that uses the v86 X86 virtualization library to load a Windows 95 image using JavaScript.