Anyone used Electron at all? What are your thoughts?

Yup. Although it creates pretty big programs (in size), it's fucking awesome being able to create desktop software in the web stack!

@linuxxx yep I was looking at it today and that was pretty much my thoughts about it. Haha good to have in reinforced.

I have been using this platform for couple of projects. It's pretty powerful. You can wrap web apps or make local web solution apps with react , nodejs... There is couple of issues with iframes and webpack, but in summary it's good for fast cross platform app solutions

We are creating the unofficial devrant cross platform application with electron. Check it out in the collab section!

Awesome framework for building cross platform desktop apps! Electron is really easy to work with.

Electron - the java of the desktop.

@CCTrollz isn't Java the Java of the desktop? I've seen many more desktop apps in Java than web apps in Java

I mean yeah. But Electron is starting to get more popular, on the bleeding edge of development, namely very simple GUIs for some big block chain projects.