Electron gives you a full Node.js environment alongside a Chromium renderer, which makes it a natural fit for building a "connector" — a bridge that lets your desktop app talk to Slack, pull data in, push notifications out, and keep a workspace in sync with whatever your app does. But …

Desktop tools built with Electron often need to talk to more than one external service, and it's tempting to treat those integrations as one big "connect everything" feature. In practice, GitHub and Google Sheets are better thought of as two separate doors into the same house: each has its own …