by andrewmcwatters on 10/14/2015, 3:47:36 AM
by mcao on 10/13/2015, 9:54:08 PM
I guess I don't understand what makes this Electron specific. It looks like a UI kit similar to Bootstrap and others. Maybe it's too early in the project, but some mention of how the Node portions of Electron are used would be helpful.
by WorldMaker on 10/13/2015, 9:37:28 PM
This seems like a great start. Hopefully they'll get good looking Windows and Linux themes together as well.
by baghira on 10/13/2015, 9:47:01 PM
This doesn't sound as a good name given the existence of: https://vmware.github.io/photon/ Granted, in the context of atom and electron it makes sense, but still.
by cbuq on 10/13/2015, 9:30:12 PM
I believe these frameworks are very cool and web-apps as desktop-apps is probably the future.
My biggest concern is how these technologies will work in the commercial world.
Do I now need to license Photon, Electron, NodeWebkit, Node, Webkit + friends?
by boromi on 10/13/2015, 9:57:21 PM
So is this just some sort of UI elements for electron? I don't understand what it offers that's new?
by john-kelly on 10/14/2015, 12:15:20 AM
would love a yeoman generator for this.
The problem that I have with Connor Sears' work and others, like the Ionic Team's is that they don't look anything like the target platform.
I'd love to work with something that was the framework equivalent of the iOS9 UI kit produced by Teehan+Lax/Facebook, or any properly designed replica of another platform, but no one produces such things. All you're left with is mediocre rip-offs that are tasteless.
I don't want to make a Photon app. I don't want to make an Ionic app. I want to make an iOS app. If you want to compete with native, compete with native and actually try.