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0 pointsflukus9y ago0 comments

What huge application are built with javascript? Visual Studio Code is probably the biggest I can think of and I don't know what would be second.

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mifreewil9y ago· 3 in thread

Brave, Slack, Atom, Popcorn Time, I'm sure there are many others. Electron (http://electron.atom.io/) is becoming a popular framework to use.

fdgdasfadsf9y ago

I think the OP meant huge in terms of complexity rather than memory usage..

flukusOP9y ago

Brave is a web browser, so I'd give electron most of the credit for making that work. Popcorn time I don't know anything about.

Slack and atom though? Both are simple client UI's and both have much less bloated alternatives.

mifreewil9y ago

Yes, admittedly, none of these are that complex. I thought Visual Studio Code was built ontop of Atom, but I might be wrong. Both built on Electron anyway - which was originally part of Atom.

realharo9y ago

VS Code is built with TypeScript.

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