Electron (formerly known as Atom Shell) is an open source library developed by GitHub for building cross-platform desktop applications with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Electron app maker enables you to create desktop applications with pure JavaScript by providing a runtime with rich native
(operating system) APIs. Electrons are used to build cross-platform Desktop apps for Linux, Windows and MacOS.
It allows for the development of desktop GUI applications using web technologies. It comes with automatic updates, native menus and notifications as well as crash reporting, debugging and profiling.