JavaScript for Desktop Apps
Sufyan bin Uzayr · 2023
This chapter discusses the usage of JavaScript (JS) for Desktop Apps. The design of desktop programs has improved in recent years, with more and more apps taking on the appearance and feel of today’s cutting-edge websites. Electron is a runtime that provides a wide range of native (operating system) APIs, allowing us to write desktop apps in pure JavaScript. WebTorrent is the first torrent client that works in the browser, is entirely built-in JavaScript, and leverages WebRTC for peer-to-peer transmission. WebTorrent connects the user to a decentralized browser-to-browser network that provides efficient file sharing without the need for plugins, extensions, or installs. WordPress, as the undisputed monarch of content management systems, needed a dependable and automatic desktop version. It joined the list of desktop applications utilizing Electron JS—as an open-source framework that enables users to manage WordPress content—thanks to Electron JS.