Electron - Quick Introduction (destop app in JS)

Hey Dev Fam,

I wanted to know what "Electron" was and went through these tutorials.

Red Stapler's quick tutorials on Electron

Introduction & WebApp -> DesktopApp Quick Conversion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Qf2Yjz-zsk

Hello World

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJFuMKPfpfs

Packaging Application

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP7j_hDL40Y

Another Overview on Electron

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr9Mtm_TRpw

GitHub's Electron Overview 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNHBfN8c32U

GitHub's selling point on using Electron is:

If you can build a website, you can build a desktop app. Electron is a framework for creating native Desktop applications with web technologies like JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.


Happy Coding,
G2

Nanobox.io - Quick Introduction

Hey Dev Fam,

I just read this article on cloud performance between AWS and Digital Ocean. The title caught my attention because AWS is quite strong in the cloud computing arena. For any author to mention how a specific vendor is trying to catch up, I'm interested in knowing.
https://content.nanobox.io/aws-vs-digital-ocean-a-performance-comparison/

After reading the article, I'm glad to see such thorough steps and results. The author did a great job. I'll have to look into these new tools like Siege. Too bad Digital Ocean didn't decrease their cost with respect to their performance. I see they kept their cost too close to AWS but their performance is not as close as it should be (in making a good case for keeping their cost close).

Anyhow, since I never heard of Nanobox.io I wanted to learn more. After watching the demo, I still wasn't sold on using it. I've used Vagrant and still need to learn Docker, but what's truly different about Nanobox besides it's fancy client UI and dashboard stuff?

Well, check this out this Nanobox demo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV4iBxytfyE

I'll need to try this out and let you know what I think...

Happy Coding,
G2