To get started with Electron, check out the resources below. Learn how to wrap your web app with Electron, access all the APIs, and generate installers.

Webstorm Create Electron Project

Explore the Electron APIs

Phpstorm Electronically

The Electron API Demos app interactively demonstrates the most important features of the Electron API. See what's possible with Electron with sample code and helpful tips for building your app.

Try more powerful experiments with Electron Fiddle

VS Code is based on Electron and is powered by HTML & JavaScript. WebStorm is developed in Java and it feels in general slower than VS Code. I would not say that it is critically slower but the speed difference is noticeable. Electron is a Developer Tools application like Appium, pgAdmin, and PhpStorm from GitHub, Inc. It has a simple and basic user interface, and most importantly, it is free to download. Electron is an efficient software that is recommended by many Windows PC users. In a world where tons of other editors get this right (Notepad, Kate, Sublime, PHPStorm, VSCode, etc) there's clear evidence that Atom is just sub-par, and I think this can be attributed to Electron.

Electron Fiddle lets you create and play with small Electron experiments. It greets you with a quick-start template after opening – change a few things, choose the version of Electron you want to run it with, and play around. Then, save your Fiddle either as a GitHub Gist or to a local folder. Once pushed to GitHub, anyone can quickly try your Fiddle out by just entering it in the address bar.

Spin up the Quick Start app to see Electron in action:

A minimal Electron app with helpful notations.

Or dive deeper and read the documentation.

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