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Electron is an application framework built on top of Chromium and NodeJS.
It allows creating cross-platform desktop apps using Web tech. [1]
The main user of Electron is the Atom IDE [2]. Microsoft Visual Studio
Code is also based on Electron. It is also useful for the creation of
desktop wrappers for popular web services, e.g. Google Music [3].
Unfortunately, current upstream's approach to "building Electron from
source" involves downloading a pre-built libchromiumcontent.so binary
from the Internet, which poses obvious security and compatibility risks.
This ebuild is based heavily on the Chromium ebuild and follows similar
unbunling policy.
Additionally, Electron-specific NodeJS headers are installed to
/usr/include so that native modules built for Electron-based apps can be
compiled against the correct version of NodeJS embedded in Electron.
[1] http://electron.atom.io/
[2] http://atom.io/
[3] https://github.com/twolfson/google-music-electron
Gentoo-Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/579116
Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/1200
Package-Manager: portage-2.2.28
Acked-by: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrice Clement <monsieurp@gentoo.org>
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Elvis Pranskevichus
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