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# Is electron Chromium based?
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Electron, is a framework that allows developers to build desktop applications using web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
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What is [[Chromium]]?
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> [!NOTE] Chat-GPT
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> Electron is based on Chromium, as it uses the Chromium browser engine to render web pages and run JavaScript code. However, Electron is not a web browser itself, but rather a platform for building desktop applications using web technologies. So, while Electron uses Chromium, it is not accurate to say that Electron itself is "Chromium-based" in the same way that a web browser like Google Chrome is.
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> Electron (formerly known as Atom Shell) is a free and open-source software framework developed and maintained by OpenJS Foundation. The framework is designed to create desktop applications using web technologies (mainly HTML, CSS and JavaScript, although other technologies such as front-end frameworks and Web Assembly are possible) that are rendered using a version of the Chromium browser engine and a back end using the Node.js runtime environment. It also uses various APIs to enable functionality such as native integration with Node.js services and an inter-process communication module.
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> Electron was originally built for Atom and is the main GUI framework behind several open-source projects including Atom, GitHub Desktop, Light Table, Visual Studio Code, WordPress Desktop and Eclipse Theia.
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> [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron%20(software%20framework))
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