Electron Tech Talks: building native cross-platform apps with web tech

Learn how companies like GitHub, Slack, Wagon, and Nylas are making polished apps across Mac, Windows, and Linux using the open source project Electron (formerly Atom-Shell).

We’ll have four 20-minute tech talks. Come celebrate the community’s first official meetup in San Francisco! There will be pizza.

The History of Electron (Kevin Sawicki - Engineer at GitHub)

A look into why Electron was built, what makes it special, how it differs from similar frameworks, and where it is going.

Integrating with Native Code (Paul Betts - Engineer at Slack)

How Slack's Desktop app calls native operating system and library methods on OS X, Windows, and Linux, via Node Native Modules, node-ffi, and edge.js.

Electron, React, and Haskell. Oh my! (Mike Craig - CTO at Wagon)

How Wagon is building a hybrid desktop/web data analytics app using Electron, React, and Haskell to solve engineering challenges that aren’t possible with the browser alone.

Making a web app feel native (Ben Gotow - Engineer at Nylas)

A dive into some JavaScript and CSS tricks the Nylas team uses to make their Electron-based mail app feel native across Mac, Windows, and Linux.

Agenda:

• 6pm: doors open for mingling, pizza, and drinks

• 7pm - 8:30pm: talks and QA