Preface
Electron is one of the technologies that I’m most excited about right now. That excitement is something that I hope you catch on to as you read Electron in Action. As I’ll explain ad nauseam throughout this book, Electron allows web developers the ability to create desktop applications with capabilities that are not available in the browser. It allows you to create graphical user interfaces for our command-line tools, opening our creations to a wider audience that may not be familiar with the terminal. Electron enables you to build applications with web technologies that you couldn’t build otherwise.
Electron hits a sweet spot that’s rare in open source. It’s low-level enough that you will quickly wrap your head around the basics, and ...
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