Electron for Mac Overview
Electron for Mac makes it easier than you think. If you can build a website, you can build a desktop app. Electron is a framework for creating native applications with web technologies like JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. It takes care of the hard parts so you can focus on the core of your application.
Features
- Web Technologies Electron uses Chromium and Node.js so you can build your app with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
- Open Source – Electron is an open source project maintained by GitHub and an active community of contributors.
- Cross Platform – Compatible with Mac, Windows, and Linux, Electron apps build and run on three platforms.
What’s new in version 42.0.0
Fixes
- Added additional ASAR support to additional fs copy methods.
- Added crash keys to diagnose power monitor shutdown crash on arm64 windows.
- Added missing metadata fields to contentTracing traces.
- Added validation to protocol client methods to reject protocol names that do not conform to the RFC.
Full list of changes available here