23 engineers on Hacker News describe using Electron first-hand: 5 endorse it, 3 regret it, 6 are mixed.
“We switched to electron, far from ideal but overall the right decision for us at least until Tauri allows bundling of a stable browser.”
mixed · production · Sytten · 2025-04-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched for hard-nosed wins of Chromium (as part of Electron)”
endorse · production · BrendanEich · 2025-03-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“That technology was based on Electron. Electron was too bloated.”
regret · personal · jldugger · 2024-08-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We migrated away from electron to a macOS app with WKWebView... Thank you Electron! But goodbye for now!”
mixed · production · giorgioz · 2024-01-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we also have an Electron app, in part because the integration with native APIs (which we use) is fairly full-featured with Electron.”
mixed · production · fastball · 2023-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I can't run a single Electron app for too long”
regret · personal · schemescape · 2023-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I do think I'm going to move on to another technology with lower maintenance costs.”
regret · production · diamondap · 2022-08-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“electron, included are by far the favoured experience among our 10.000 users.”
mixed · production · moksly · 2021-09-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Electron is sooo simple. I mean, we've run into some pretty interesting issues like with hardware acceleration and difference in color and font rendering between platforms”
mixed · production · httpsterio · 2019-10-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“As a solo developer using Electron means that I don't have to reimplement all the UI components I already have”
endorse · production · fabiospampinato · 2018-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We migrated to electron and its contents.printToPDF(options, callback), but that has the drawback that we have to start a X-server”
mixed · production · 0XAFFE · 2017-06-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been working with GitHub via PRs. They added the feature most needed so far, proper process-level sandboxing”
endorse · production · pfraze · 2016-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Once Electron got it's footing, we migrated there.”
endorse · production · grinich · 2016-03-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I did something very similar with my private projects and I've been using it for the last weeks. It's basically Electron”
endorse · personal · DiThi · 2015-07-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“in the native app we can trust the version of Chromium we ship and remediate issues using Electron APIs”
neutral · production · jitl · 2024-07-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Yes, it used to be based on Electron.”
neutral · production · enderdev · 2021-09-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“custom modifications to Electron to reduce screen share latency”
neutral · production · jsherwani · 2021-08-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we ditched Esri and created our own in-house app, based on Electron.”
neutral · production · tundrax · 2021-06-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“A couple of years ago we switched an Electron/Cordova application to the native OS Webview”
neutral · production · pier25 · 2021-03-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The other is a bigger issue with certification and the reason we moved to electron apps as the standard delivery.”
neutral · production · LukeEF · 2020-09-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it's paying huge dividends as we build electron desktop apps and websites with React as well.”
neutral · production · lukevp · 2020-06-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“GeckoView lets you do pretty much anything allow us to support important features we provide with our Electron clients.”
neutral · production · poutine · 2020-05-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use Electron for Windows/Mac/Linux but as far as I know Chrome Apps are still the only game in town for ChromeOS.”
neutral · production · jacobkg · 2017-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?