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Build cross platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS

San Francisco, CA
Joined April 2015
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@electronjs
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2 years
@electronjs is now also on Mastodon! 🐘 If you prefer toots over tweets, come follow us at . All information will be mirrored between our Twitter and Mastodon accounts.
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@electronjs
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🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Electron v6.0.0 has been released! $ npm i electron @latest This is the first time we’ve made a stable Electron release on the same day as the corresponding Chrome stable release 🥳 See more here 👇
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@electronjs
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We're starting a "Project of the Week" blog series. First up is Kap, an open-source screen recording app.
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@electronjs
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We're so excited to announce that Electron v3.0.0 is stable and ready for you to explore! See more details here:
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@electronjs
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🌲 Today we're launching a free service that makes it easy for open-source Electron apps to update themselves. Continuous deployment for the win!
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@electronjs
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Touch Bar support is now available in Electron 1.6.3 beta
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@electronjs
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Electron now has TypeScript definitions that make development easier, even if you're writing vanilla JavaScript.
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Electron 8.0.0 has shipped 🚢 New in this release: 🖥 Upgrade to Chrome 80 🔤 Implemented Chrome's built-in spellchecker feature ⚡️ IPC uses v8's Structured Clone Algorithm for faster performance You can find the release notes at:
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@electronjs
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New to Electron development? We put together some simple sample apps to help you get started.
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@electronjs
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Electron 11.0.0 has shipped! 🚢 New in this release: 🍎 Support for Apple M1 hardware ⚡️ Upgraded to Chrome 87 🚀 Improved performance for context bridge objects You can find the release notes at:
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@electronjs
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8 years
Meet Electron 1.0, the best way to build desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS:
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@electronjs
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Electron 2.0.0-beta.1 is out with updated Chromium and Node.js, macOS in-app purchases, GTK3 support for Linux, and much more. Release notes:
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@electronjs
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✨Great news! Electron is joining the @openjsf as an incubation program, a move we're excited about. Read more about it here:
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Electron 14.0.0 has shipped! 🚢 New in this release: ⚡️ Upgraded to Chrome 93 🚀 API additions to session & more 🛑 Removal of remote module 🛠 Bug fixes and improvements More details and release notes:
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@electronjs
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Electron 12.0.0 has shipped! 🚢 New in this release: ⚡️ Upgraded to Chrome 89 🛠️ Deprecated remote module 🚀 Context Isolation now defaults to true Release notes (and remote migration guide!):
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@electronjs
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Electron v5.0.0-beta.1 is available for testing! For the first time ever, this beta release of Electron contains a pre-stable version of Chromium (v72) and Node.js (v12). We're also thrilled to share our release timeline with the public!
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@electronjs
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9 years
Visual Studio Code is an Electron app #Build2015
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@electronjs
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Electron 9.0.0 has shipped! 🚢 New in this release: ⚡Upgraded to Chrome 83 📑Enabled PDF viewer 🔤Improved Chrome's built-in spellchecker feature You can find the release notes at:
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@electronjs
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Electron's API Docs are now available as structured data. npm i -g trymodule && trymodule electron-api-docs=apis
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@electronjs
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Congrats to Hyper, the terminal built by nearly 100 contributors using web technologies, for hitting version 1.0.0 🎉
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@electronjs
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Electron 10.0.0 has shipped! 🚢 New in this release: ⚡️ Upgraded to Chrome 85 🪟 Improved window event handling 🎟️ Session persistence API enhancements You can find the release notes at:
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@electronjs
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Electron 16.0.0 has shipped 🚢 New in this release: ⚡️ Upgraded to Chrome 96 🌟 Upgraded to Node.js 16.9 🛠 Bug fixes and improvements More details and release notes:
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@electronjs
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We just launched our new internationalized website! New domain, docs translation in progress for over 20 languages, new apps pages, and @nodejs from top to bottom. 🐢🚀
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@electronjs
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A new major version of Electron is in the works, and with it some changes to our versioning strategy. As of version 2.0.0, Electron will more strictly adhere to Semantic Versioning. Details at
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@electronjs
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Electron 1.4.7 is out with macOS vibrancy support, improved <form> handling, and more
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@electronjs
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You can now `npm install electron` to get the latest precompiled version of Electron.
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@electronjs
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🎉 Electron is moving to release a new major stable version every 12 weeks! 🎉
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@electronjs
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Electron 15.0.0 has shipped 🚢 New in this release: ⚡️ Upgraded to Chrome 94 🌟 Upgraded to Node.js 16.5 🚀 nativeWindowOpen is now the default window open behavior 🛠 Bug fixes and improvements More details and release notes:
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@electronjs
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Introducing Devtron, our new DevTools extension designed to help you debug your Electron App
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@electronjs
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Watch how Slack is making Electron development simpler, more pleasant, and more productive.
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@electronjs
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The first beta of electron @3 is out with Chromium 66 and Node 10. Take it for a spin: $ npm i -D electron @beta Changelog:
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@electronjs
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This week's featured project is @WebTorrentApp , which now enables built-in torrent streaming in the @brave browser.
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@electronjs
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🚢 We have quietly shipped several features that make Electron more accessible to developers outside of the English speaking world! Nearly 2 million strings translated, and the @nodejs project is following suit. Read more at
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@electronjs
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Electron 28 has shipped! 🚢 In this release: 🍾 Added ESM support (a highly requested feature) 🌎 Updated to Chromium 120.0.6099.56 🛠️ Bug fixes & improvements More details and release notes:
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@electronjs
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🚨 We shipped fixes for a vulnerability in Chromium. Please update your apps now! npm i -D electron @latest
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@electronjs
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8 years
Check out the first in a series by @zcbenz on Electron's internals: Message Loop Integration
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@electronjs
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Check out the second Electron Internals post: Using Node as a Library
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@electronjs
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Electron 18.0.0 has shipped 🚢 New in this release: ⚡️ Upgraded to Chrome 100 🌟 Upgraded to Node.js 16.13.2 🛠 Bug fixes and improvements More details and release notes:
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@electronjs
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Electron 1.1 is out and ships with Chrome 50 and Node 6.10
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@electronjs
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The lovely @DevDocs now has searchable and offline-friendly Electron docs. And of course there's an app for that:
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@electronjs
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🏃‍♂️ Do you want your Electron app to be just a little faster? We’ve collected seven performance tips that’ll make your app boot faster and run leaner.
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@electronjs
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Electron 17.0.0 has shipped 🚢 New in this release: ⚡️ Upgraded to Chrome 98 🌟 Upgraded to Node.js 16.13 🛠 Bug fixes and improvements More details and release notes:
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@electronjs
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🤫📆 We're going quiet for the month of December to give our maintainers a breather. We'll be back better than ever in January! Read more:
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@electronjs
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A big step for Electron: governance ⚖️ As Electron looks to solidify its future, we’ve implemented a governance structure to formalize our processes and divide responsibilities more effectively and clearly:
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@electronjs
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The Electron website has a new search engine that delivers instant results for API docs, tutorials, Electron-related npm packages, and more.
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@electronjs
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Electron 1.2 is out with Chrome 51, DevTools extension support, new bluetooth APIs, and more
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@electronjs
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Electron 20.0.0 has shipped 🚢 New in this release: ⚡️ Upgraded to Chrome 104 🚀 V8 Memory Cage Enabled 🛠️ Bug fixes and improvements More details and release notes:
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@electronjs
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🎉 Electron turned 10 years old yesterday! To celebrate this milestone, we wrote a few words on the journey thus far:
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@electronjs
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Electron 13.0.0 has shipped! 🚢 New in this release: ⚡️ Upgraded to Chrome 91 🚀 API additions to session, webContents & more 🛠️ Bug fixes and improvements More details and release notes:
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@electronjs
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It's almost time to start a new weekend project. Start building an Electron app with the help of our guide:
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@electronjs
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The Electron community believes that Black Lives Matter. To be silent is to be complicit. It is our responsibility to use our platform to amplify the voices of the oppressed and marginalized. Follow @NAACP_LDF @eji_org #BlackLivesMatter
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@electronjs
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This week's featured project is @BeakerBrowser , an experimental p2p web browser using the @dat_project protocol.
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@electronjs
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; @voltraco is an Electron-powered music player for people who want to own their music.
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@electronjs
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🚨 We shipped fixes for a remote code execution vulnerability affecting Electron apps that use custom protocol handlers. Please update your apps now.
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@electronjs
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Happy Hacktoberfest! 🎃 We've put together an umbrella Hacktoberfest issue for Electron. There's currently a bit of a gap between our website's docs, our electron-api-demos repo, and Electron Fiddle. We'd ❤️ to have your contributions:
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@electronjs
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⚡️ The website's app index is now more lightweight on page load, down from 2.2MB to 400KB thanks to gzip compression and lazy-loading app icons.
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@electronjs
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This week's featured project is Ghost Desktop, a client for the open-source Ghost publishing platform. @TryGhost
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@electronjs
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🎉 We're excited to announce that Electron Forge v6.0.0 is now available! This is the first major release of Forge since 2018, and aims to make packaging and distributing your Electron app even easier. Read more about the v6.0.0 release here:
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@electronjs
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This week we're featuring @dat_project , an open-source, decentralized tool for distributing data sets.
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Electron 19.0.0 has shipped 🚀 New in this release: ⚡️ Upgraded to Chrome 102 🌟 Upgraded to Node.js 16.14.2 🛠 Bug fixes and improvements More details and release notes:
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@electronjs
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To the 685 people translating docs in 23 languages: Thank you! Also, we want your feedback:
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@electronjs
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Electron 29 has shipped🚢! In this release: ⚡️️Added a new net module to the utility process 📁 Added a new top-level webUtils module that provides a utility layer to interact with Web API objects 🛠️ Bug fixes & improvements For more info:
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@electronjs
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The new Electron API Demos app contains code snippets to help get your app started:
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@electronjs
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Reminder: Use the electron npm package in your projects, as electron-prebuilt is no longer being published.
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@electronjs
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We've shipped Electron Fiddle v0.19.0, which includes: 📦 Started building for Windows, macOS, and Linux on ARM ✨ Gist URL repopulates on blur (thanks @ShridharAryan ) 🐛 A handful of fixes and improvements More details:
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Electron 21.0.0 has shipped 🚢 New in this release: ⚡ Upgraded to Chrome 106 🌟 Upgraded to Node.js 16.16.0 🛠️ Bug fixes and improvements More details and release notes:
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@electronjs
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We’ve recently released patched versions of Electron that fix a zero-day vulnerability found in Google Chrome. See our blog post for more details👇
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Electron 26.0.0 has shipped 🚢 New in this release: ⚡️ Upgraded to Chrome 116 🔐 Added new APIs for safeStorage 🛠️ Bug fixes and improvements More details and release notes:
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Electron 22.0.0 has shipped 🚢 New in this release: ⚡️ Upgraded to Chrome 108 🎁 New UtilityProcess API 🪟 Windows 7 deprecation updates 🛠️ Bug fixes and improvements More details and release notes:
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@electronjs
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Hello from @jsconfeu If you’re here, let us know!
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@electronjs
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Today, we’re excited to share that we’re kicking off an Electron Community Discord server and have some plans to help get folks started with @hacktoberfest in Electron:
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@electronjs
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The Electron repositories now have a new home 🎉 🚀 🏠
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@electronjs
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Electron's Devtron and Spectron libraries now include accessibility auditing.
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@electronjs
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Two podcasts have been released that give a great overview of Electron, why it was built, and how it is being used.
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@electronjs
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Electron 24.0.0 has shipped 🚢 New in this release: ⚡️  Upgraded to Chrome 112 📸  Improved APIs for thumbnails 🛠️  Bug fixes and improvements More details and release notes:
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@electronjs
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Electron 1.4.12 is out with a critical fix for a time-sensitive certificate issue affecting all prior 1.4 releases
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@electronjs
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Watch @zeke 's talk about the history of JavaScript and all the fun things you can build with Electron.
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@electronjs
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This week's featured project is @jasperappio , a tool for managing GitHub notifications.
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@electronjs
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📣 Beginning with Electron 15, we're changing our major version release cadence from 12 weeks to 8 weeks to better align with Chromium's shortened release cadence and new Microsoft Store security policies. More details and scheduled release dates here:
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@electronjs
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The @wordpress team uses Electron to build open-source tools for distraction-free content creation.
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@electronjs
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We're hiring! Full-Stack Engineer: C++ Engineer: DM @0x604 with any questions.
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@electronjs
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🎉 A new release of Electron Forge is now available! New in Forge v6.2.1: - Various Vite plugin fixes - Ability to add async Maker configurations See the full changelog:
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@electronjs
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Electron now includes a built-in Windows auto updater and a Mac App Store compatible build. Learn more:
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@electronjs
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The apps page just got a little better, with descriptions and search. Add more apps at
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@electronjs
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⏸Electron is temporarily pausing major releases, in conjunction with Chromium’s announcement. Read more below ⬇
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@electronjs
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Spectron 3.0 is here, now with comprehensive support for the Electron APIs:
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Electron 30 has shipped 🚢! In this release: ❗️Added WebContentsView & BaseWindow, deprecating BrowserViews ❗️ASAR Integrity fuse now enabled by default on Windows 🛠️Bug fixes, more features & improvements More details and release notes:
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