Building cross-platform desktop applications comes with a unique set of challenges that can stand in your way when you are trying to transform your ideas into software. Web apps avoid some of these hurdles, but they have limitations that make them impractical for building native desktop applications. Electron lets you harness the best parts of these technologies to build beautiful, cross-platform desktop applications using HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.
“When you look at this image on different browsers, you’re kind of looking at the history of the internet and what was demanded of it at the time,» Smith told Motherboard in 2018.
But experimenting with different browsers also reveals a hint of the future: A ton of browsers these days are running Chromium, Google’s open-source browser code. Whereas Pure CSS Lace might have shown off how every browser is unique in the past, it now looks exactly the same on Chrome, Vivaldi, Brave, and Opera.
