If you already have a web app — React, Vue, Angular, Svelte, or even plain HTML/CSS/JS — and you want to hand someone an installable Android APK without rewriting everything in Kotlin or Java, Capacitor is one of the most direct paths there. It wraps your existing web build in …

Electron gets a reputation, fair or not, as a memory hog. "It's just a browser tab pretending to be an app" is the usual jab, and there's truth buried in the joke: every Electron app bundles a full Chromium renderer and a Node.js runtime, so the baseline cost of …

Chat interfaces like Claude and ChatGPT feel deceptively simple: a message box, a scrolling conversation, a streaming response. But under the hood, there's a real desktop application architecture at work — one you can absolutely build yourself. This article walks through creating a native-feeling AI chat application using Electron, covering the …

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 …

If you've ever used Visual Studio Code, Slack, Discord, or Figma's desktop app, you've already used Electron — even if you didn't know it. Electron lets developers build cross-platform desktop applications using nothing but HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. No native Swift, no C++, no platform-specific SDKs required.

This post walks through …