GitHub's Electron (Changelog Interviews #216)

Zeke Sikelianos joined the show to talk about GitHub’s Electron project and the future of web folks making cross platform desktop apps. We talked about the web revolution around native vs web app, where Electron is heading, who’s using it, and how cool it is to enable folks like Guillermo Rauch to build HyperTerm.

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Featuring:

• Zeke Sikelianos – Website, GitHub, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Electron
• Electron Docs
• Electron Issues – label:help-wanted
• Electron Issues – label:beginner
• Mojibar - Emoji searcher but as a menubar app
• browserify on npm
• Tonic + npm: browserify
• npms
• Fluid - Turn Your Favorite Web Apps into Real Mac Apps.
• GitHub Desktop - Simple collaboration from your desktop
• jiahaog/nativefier: Wrap any web page natively without even thinking, across Windows, OSX and Linux
• maxogden (=^._.^=)
• mafintosh (Mathias Buus)
• electron-userland
• Dat Project
• #213: ZEIT, HyperTerm, and now with Guillermo Rauch - Changelog
• Request For Commits - Changelog
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• Subscribe to Changelog Weekly

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