Electron and Desktop App Engineering with Shelley Vohr

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🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Electron is a framework for building cross-platform desktop applications using web technologies like JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. It allows developers to package web apps with a native-like experience by bundling them with a Chromium browser and Node.js runtime. Electron is widely used for apps like VS Code, Discord, and Slack because it enables a single

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0:00.0	Electron is a framework for building cross-platform desktop applications using web technologies like JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
0:08.0	It allows developers to package web apps with a native-like experience by bundling them with a Chromium browser and a Node.
0:15.0	Electron is widely used for apps like VS code, Discord, and Slack because it enables a single code base to run on
0:22.2	Windows, MacOS, and Linux. Shelly Vore is a principal software engineer at Microsoft, where she
0:28.2	works on Electron. She joins the podcast with Josh Goldberg to talk about her work on the Electron
0:33.9	project. This episode is hosted by Josh Goldberg, an independent full-time open-source
0:39.1	developer. Josh works on projects in the TypeScript ecosystem, most notably TypeScript ES Slint,
0:46.1	the tooling that enables ES Slint and prettier to run on TypeScript code. Josh is also the author
0:51.8	of the O'Reilly Learning TypeScript book, a Microsoft MVP for developer technologies, and a live code streamer on Twitch.
1:00.2	Find Josh on Blue Sky, Mastodon, Twitter, Twitch, YouTube, and dot com as Joshua K. Goldberg.
1:21.6	Shelley, welcome to Software Engineering Daily.
1:23.6	Hello. Thank you for having me.
1:25.8	Oh, well, thanks for coming on. We're really excited.
1:28.0	You've been around on GitHub and in the web dev and C++ plus space for quite a while. Your name pops up on a lot of commits on GitHub.
1:32.5	But before we get into all that and Electro-on, you can tell us who you are, how you got into coding?
1:37.3	Yeah, absolutely. So I, as a kid, was always pretty interested in the way that stuff worked.
1:43.9	So I really liked programming my
1:46.5	calculator when I was in high school. And then when I got my first computer, I spent a fair amount of
1:51.7	time trying to figure out how it worked, what I could get it to do, different ways that I could get
1:57.1	it to not work. And then at a certain point, I realized that there was such a thing as programming
2:03.8	languages that could interface with a Mac and basically, you know, felt like the horizons
2:08.8	opened up as soon as I realized that I could make computers work in new and novel ways
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