High performance Desktop applications with Electron (Javascript framework)

Submitted Jul 27, 2016

Section: Full talk Technical level: Intermediate

Electron is a javascript framework from Github, to build powerful cross platform desktop applications with HTML/JS/CSS. On top of electron, imagine applications developed with existing javascript ecosystem and building desktop apps - the outcome will be amazing. During this session, we will discuss in detail from a performance perspective, how we can analyze electron applications and how we can solve different challenges involved in it. With this stack, we can solve complex computation problems (data analytics, image processing) using javascript stack to achieve quicker load time and computation time.

Outline

Following is the mind map of the session flow.
First 10 minutes ->

introduction to electron & key features
how Javascript based desktop application development could be helpful
Demo of a small hello world application and showcase how easy it is to get started
Tools for rapid application development (debugging)

Second 10 minutes ->

quick look into applications developed using electron
discuss different kind of problems we can solve
performance benefits with this stack
bringing in performance improvement on NodeJS level
bringing in performance improvement on JS level
bringing in performance improvement on V8 engine level

Third 10 minutes ->

demo performance intensive application
showcase how to do performance analysis
showcase optimisation techniques
showcase performance improvement
how to apply the earlier discussed techniques to solve perf problems
challenges in desktop applications

Fourth 10 minutes ->

Conclusion notes
Followup resources - Github project links
Question and answers

Speaker bio

I am Sairam Krish. I am a passionate developer for the past 12 years. I have been working on Electron based desktop applications and found it to be very impressive, in solving regular challenges with desktop applications. Also it bridges the gap between desktop and web applications. I like to share my actual work experience, findings and learning with the community. I have presented the same topic inside the company and response was amazing. Like to present it in JSFoo, since, we will have best Javascript audience.

More on my work experience can be found here - http://in.linkedin.com/in/sairamkrish