Electron and Desktop App Engineering with Shelley Vohr

Electron and Desktop App Engineering with Shelley Vohr

Author: All Content Archives - Software Engineering Daily August 5, 2025 Duration: 50:59
Electron is a framework for building cross-platform desktop applications using web technologies like JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. It allows developers to package web apps with a native-like experience by bundling them with a Chromium browser and Node.js runtime. Electron is widely used for apps like VS Code, Discord, and Slack because it enables a single

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Duration: 1:01:31
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Duration: 54:45
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Radix UI with Chance Strickland [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 56:21
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Duration: 51:59
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Duration: 49:46
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Duration: 57:04
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Duration: 56:00
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