Vault12 Open Source WebAuthn/Passkey Support for Electron on macOS: Enabling Touch ID and iCloud Keychain in Hybrid Desktop Apps

Vault12 announced today the open-source release of electron-webauthn-mac, a native WebAuthn/Passkey implementation for Electron apps on macOS only that ports Apple's platform authenticators (Touch ID ...
AOL

How to use Electron to build responsive desktop apps

If you are like me, you love JavaScript and its ecosystem, and you have been building amazing web applications using frameworks like React or performant web servers with NodeJS. Now you want to ...
Gizmochina

WhatsApp discontinues Electron-based desktop app

WhatsApp has recently announced the deprecation of its Electron-based desktop application, signaling the end-of-life stage for the software. Windows users who open the Electron version of the app will ...
ZDNet

How Slack brought its desktop app to the Windows Store

There's no official Electron bridge to Windows 10, even though there are iOS, Win32, and Silverlight bridges meant to help developers move their apps into the Windows Store. But that didn't stop Slack ...
The Next Web

Cross-platform Electron apps may be vulnerable to attack; update yours now

Electron is a popular framework for building cross-platform desktop applications using web technologies. The tool was created by GitHub, and is the basis of several popular apps like Slack, Visual ...