Platform independent simple password manager application (Electron & NodeJS)
Electron is a framework for creating native applications with web technologies including JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Electron enables create desktop applications with pure JavaScript by providing a runtime with rich native (operating system) APIs. It allows for the development of desktop GUI applications using Node.js runtime for the backend and Chromium for the frontend component. As a sample platform independent desktop application, I created the JPwdManager, a simple platform independent password manager application. An Electron application is essentially a Node.js application. The starting point is a package.json that is identical to that of a Node.js module. The script specified by the main field is the startup script of your app, which will run the main process. Our package.json file is as follows: { "name": "jpwdmanager", "version": "1.0.1", "description": "platform independent simple password manager app...