a-few-nice-electron-things.md

• first-class transpiler support (pick your syntax sugar of choice, have it be sourcemapped easily in debuggers/stack traces/etc.)
• easy & accurate code coverage tools (with sourcemaps too)
• integrated console, debugger, memory, CPU profiler, network inspector (a key shortcut away, even in the production version of the app)
• remote debugging too (renderer and main process - with the UI showing remotely in a way you can interact with)
• great support for integration tests (aka webdriver - you basically send mouse/keyboard events and inspect the DOM to make sure what you expect to happen on screen happens)
• script language by default, but 1) easy to write native modules as long as you can make a dynlib out of it, 2) you can make heap snapshots of your scripts to load them faster, see https://github.com/atom/electron-link
• so many batteries included (fs, networking, video, audio, controllers, printing, yada yada) in a reasonable runtime size, considering.
• hot module reloading: save file in your text editor, ui components rerefresh with the new code - you can hot-reload non-ui stuff too if you try hard enough
• just so many libraries one npm install away (you gotta know how to sift through the bs, but that's everywhere)