Electron joins the OpenJS Foundation

The OpenJS Foundation announced that Electron, an open-source network framework, has joined the foundation’s incubation program. Electron is a cross-platform desktop application development tool based on Node.js and Chromium. It supports writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. It is widely used in many well-known applications, including Discord, Microsoft Teams, Skype, Slack, Visual Studio Code, and more.

The OpenJS Foundation is committed to supporting the healthy development of the JavaScript ecosystem and web technologies by providing a neutral organization to host and maintain projects and to fund the benefit of the entire community. The foundation consists of 32 open-source JavaScript projects, including jQuery, Node.js, and Webpack, and is supported by 30 companies including Google, IBM, Intel, and Microsoft.

“We’re heading into 2020 excited and honored by the trust the Electron project leaders have shown through this significant contribution to the new OpenJS Foundation,” said Robin Ginn, Executive Director of the OpenJS Foundation. “Electron is a powerful development tool used by some of the most well-known companies and applications. On behalf of the community, I look forward to working with Electron and seeing the amazing contributions they will make.”

“We’re excited about Electron’s move to the OpenJS Foundation and we see this as the next step in our evolution as an open source project,” said Jacob Groundwater, Manager at ElectronJS and Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft. “With the Foundation, we’ll continue on our mission to play a prominent role in the adoption of web technologies by desktop applications and provide a path for JavaScript to be a sustainable platform for desktop applications. This will enable the adoption and development of JavaScript in an environment that has traditionally been served by proprietary or platform-specific technologies.”