In a perfect world, developers write code once and it just works everywhere. Unfortunately, that utopia doesn't exist. Instead, developers practice their wizardry in a digital universe that includes multiple versions of competing operating systems. Attempting to build a cross-platform desktop application—that is, one which will run on multiple operating systems using the same underlying code—presents a number of challenges, especially for the developer with limited resources. Those of us short on resources need help to reach our end-goal. Just as Harry had Dumbledore, Ron, and Hermione to help him defeat Voldemort, we too have help -- in the form of a cross-platform framework. Cross-platform frameworks - which include Electron, NWJS and CEF - are designed to limit the work that a developer or development team has to put in to creating apps for Windows, Mac OS and Linux.

In this talk, I will walk through the decisions that I have had to make when building my own application -- Enterprise Flashlight (Echelon) -- including but not limited to: pros and cons of using Electron over other frameworks and finally will give a demo on the application I developed, which aims to increase the productivity of all engineer at my current company.

Target Audience:
This talk will be useful for any muggle who is on a quest to build cross platform desktop applications.