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Chapter: Client-side web apps
Lecture: Electron JS introduction
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The final thing I want to cover while we're talking about client side Javascript just to sort of show how far you can push this is Electron JS.
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So I'm not sure if you are familiar with Electron JS, it's pretty awesome, it basically takes Node and Chrome
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and packages that up into a self-contained executable that looks like a native application on macOS and Windows.
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So you probably have interacted with Electron JS apps, so Electron JS actually came from Atom, from github,
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but we already saw that we were playing with Visual Studio code earlier and just to paste out some information, and this is an Electron JS app
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it looks just like standard macOS app here, and it looks like a Windows app over there. Another one is Postman, great for APIs.
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So over here we could hit the RSS feed for Talk Python, what do we get— wait for it to download here you can see that's the RSS feed, right.
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So these are all Electron JS apps, so let's see how we might use this in PyCharm.