Earlier this year, Github released Atom-Shell, the core of its famous open-source editor Atom, and renamed it to Electron for the special occasion. Electron, unlike other competitors in the category of Node.js-based desktop applications, brings its own twist to this already well-established market by combining the power of Node.js (io.js until recent releases) with the Chromium Engine to bring us
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