Give a warm welcome to Electron: a new rising star claiming to take over the world of desktop applications smoothing the rough edges between web, mobile, and desktop.
If you still haven’t heard the name Electron, you are going to hear a lot on it in the following years. There are already many applications that are built with Electron. These include Slack, Atom editor, Visual Studio Code, WordPress.com, Skype and many others.
So, what is Electron? Electron is a new way to build cross-platform desktop applications based on the well-known Chromium and Node.js engines that are already popular in the industry.
What front-end technologies does Electron use? Electron uses HTML, JavaScript, and CSS to build desktop applications. The vision of one codebase for web, mobile, and desktop applications has never been closer. When it comes to automation, it was always a chase after the recent platforms, frameworks, and technologies. Here again, we are closer than ever to use the same automation for all.
Technically speaking, you can automate Electron applications as if they were standard web applications using Selenium ChromeDriver.
