983: Why I Chose Electron Over Native (And I’d Do It Again)
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats
Wes Bos
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🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Real quick, before we go, we are launching a new video series called March MadSSS |
| 0:04.4 | Battle Tournament with 16 of the World's Best Developers at Josh Komu, Chris Coyur, Adam Wathen |
| 0:10.9 | of Tailwin, Cassidy Williams, even Scott and I. Now, we have a ton of prizes to give away, |
| 0:17.8 | and if you want to win, go to MadcSSS.com and you're going to fill out the bracket. |
| 0:22.7 | So madcsss.com, log in with your GitHub, and you're going to pick who you think is going to win |
| 0:28.2 | each of these. And whoever gets the highest score is going to win this amazing prize pack. |
| 0:34.5 | Like this. Sick CSS jacket. You can also order this from the website as well. We've got some pretty cool merch, some T's, stickers, and Naljean, first, second, third prize. Go to Mad CSS. Make your picks. You can share them with your friends. You'll probably win. Peace. Welcome to C. Oh, my water. Too much. All right. Let's try that again. Emphatic. Welcome to Cintax. There we go. I'll do it for you. How about that? Oh, yeah. It's so funny. I like to get big. And that's not really conducive to having water. You know what, Wes? |
| 1:14.6 | Have you ever spilled water all over your stuff before at your computer? |
| 1:15.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:20.4 | It's part of the reason why I keep my laptop on a stand all the time. Because one time, many times I've dumped water, especially on my keyboard. |
| 1:24.6 | But one time one of our kids dumped water on my wife wife's Macbook and just fried the whole thing and luckily our credit card insurance |
| 1:33.1 | covered the entire thing and they bought us a brand new one but man yeah I'm so |
| 1:38.1 | scared of of that type of thing I don't mind a keyboard getting getting drenched |
| 1:42.4 | but not a laptop. |
| 1:45.0 | I've never, yeah, I've never, for as much as my nickname growing up was the king of spills, |
| 1:50.1 | and I still do spill occasionally, and I have never spilled liquid on my laptop, not soup, |
| 1:56.6 | not drink, not anything. |
| 1:58.3 | And that is shocking, yeah, oh yeah, And my computer is also on risers, though. |
| 2:02.4 | So if I did spill, it would have to be a pretty tremendous spell. |
| 2:04.7 | There's no app for that, but I did make an app to solve my video feed problems. |
| 2:09.9 | And we're going to be talking about electron apps. |
| 2:12.6 | We're going to be talking about Tori apps, ElectroBun, desktop apps with web tech, and the choices that I made to get |
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