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Electron JS, Visual Studio Code, and SQL Operations Studio

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Electron JS is a really cool framework that you can use to build  cross platform desktop apps using only HTML, CSS, and JavaScript!!! Assuming you have the ability to build and test out the different platforms, it's very easy to deploy cross-platform.  Node.js is used for the backend runtime and the frontend is supported with Chromium.  This framework was created by, and is currently maintained by, GitHub.  There are a lot of well-known apps made from Electron, and you may be using them and not know it... keep reading to see.. There are some kickstarter guides to using it here: https://github.com/electron/electron-api-demos/blob/master/docs.md https://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-to-build-your-first-app-with-electron-41ebdb796930 https://www.tutorialspoint.com/electron/electron_quick_guide.htm Visual Studio Code Visual Studio is generally liked and widely used with .NET developers, however there are a lot of complaints from both .NET and non .NET folk about it'