did all of this spawn from Phonegap? I remember when Phonegap first came out, it was a clever thing but rough around the edges. I used it when chasing the cross-platform mobile app dream with some success.
Then Apache picked it up as Cordova and the Ionic framework really helped to show what could be done with it. Ionic has come a long way and I'm, today, finishing up a client mobile project using that framework.
A while back I recommended Electron to a colleague who was tasked with implementing an old java applet as a stand alone application (we're all web developers) and it really saved him a lot of grief (client was happy with the price tag too).
To me, Electron is Phonegap for the Desktop. Is that how this all came about?
Not really. The idea of using HTML and Javascript to create apps isn't really new, and Phonegap and Electron are quite different architecturally. (Phonegap was really just a series of abstraction libraries that bundled in a webview into a native app; Electron couples a browser with a Node run time) One of the competitors to Phonegap in the earlier days, Appcelerator Titanium, was capable of targeting the desktop, and was released in December 2008.
Then Apache picked it up as Cordova and the Ionic framework really helped to show what could be done with it. Ionic has come a long way and I'm, today, finishing up a client mobile project using that framework.
A while back I recommended Electron to a colleague who was tasked with implementing an old java applet as a stand alone application (we're all web developers) and it really saved him a lot of grief (client was happy with the price tag too).
To me, Electron is Phonegap for the Desktop. Is that how this all came about?