JavaScript Zagreb May Meetup @ Pogon

Hey everyone!

Join us for our next meetup on May 27th starting at 18:00 at a new venue - Pogon Mislavova (Kneza Mislava 18).

We'll have an interesting talk by our own Vitaliy, followed by our usual networking. Afterwards, we'll either stay at Pogon or head to a nearby bar (Canopy Bar sounds like a good option).

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Electron in Production: Building Efficient Desktop Apps with Native Modules
by Vitaliy Yunikov

VS Code, Slack, Figma, Linear, Notion — a lot of the desktop apps web developers use daily - are all Electron. Electron also has a reputation for being slow and bloated. Both are true: a well-built Electron app feels native, a default one doesn't.

This talk covers what production Electron teams know that the docs don't tell you. We'll go through the process model and what each process costs, the security defaults you need from day one, the JS-side performance moves that buy back the memory Chromium charges, and what happens when pure JavaScript stops being fast enough - going native with N-API, including the data, threading, and memory contracts that surprise even experienced JS developers.

Hope to see you there!
Marcela