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Do You Know These World-Famous Apps Are Built with Electron?

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Electron is an open-source framework that lets developers build desktop applications using web technologies like JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, creating cross-platform apps for Windows, macOS, and Linux from a single codebase. Popular applications built with Electron include Discord, Visual Studio Code, Notion, Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Figma. The framework combines Chromium for web content rendering with Node.js for backend capabilities, allowing web developers to create native-like desktop experiences without learning platform-specific programming languages.

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