Electron
A proven way to ship a desktop app with web technology. VS Code and Slack run on it.
What we build with it
- Full-featured desktop applications
- Internal tools distributed across a company
- Desktop versions of existing web apps
Why we use it
Electron bundles Chromium and Node, so anything that works on the web works in the app, identically on every OS. The ecosystem has an answer for nearly every desktop problem.
When we don't use it
The bundle is heavy. For small utilities where a 150MB installer feels absurd, Tauri gets the same UI into a few megabytes.
What we have written about Electron
- Migrate Electron to Tauri: steps, effort, and real costs
Moving from Electron to Tauri keeps your frontend, rewrites main-process code in Rust, and needs a plan for the updater and user data. Checklist and diff.
- Tauri vs Electron vs WPF benchmark: size and memory measured
One app built in Tauri, Electron, WPF, Avalonia, and Wails on Windows 11. Tauri's installer was 1.05 MB, Electron's 106 MB. Idle memory was closer than claimed.
- Electron alternatives 2026: Tauri, Wails, Flutter and 8 more
Tauri is the closest Electron alternative: our test installer was 1.05 MB vs 106 MB. Wails 3 suits Go teams, Avalonia C#. 11 options checked Nov 7.
- Desktop auto-updates: Electron vs Tauri, signing and servers
Electron autoUpdater: Windows and macOS only, signed Mac builds, a feed you host unless open source. Tauri: every release signed, on all three OSes.
Questions clients ask
Short answers, no sales language. If yours isn't here, ask an engineer directly.
Ask us anythingIsn't Electron bloated?
It costs more disk and memory than Tauri, and that is real. For complex apps the tradeoff buys rendering consistency and a huge ecosystem. For small tools we recommend Tauri instead.
Can you port our web app to desktop?
Usually yes, and it is one of the fastest desktop projects there is: your existing frontend plus native menus, shortcuts, auto-update, and installers.
Got something to build?
Tell us what you need. An engineer replies, not a sales team.