a community story of Electron

a community story of Electron JSConf.Asia Singapore 2016

introduction ‣ $IFOH;IBP ‣ DSFBUFE&MFDUSPOGSBNFXPSL ‣ XPSLJOHBU(JU)VC ‣ IUUQTHJUIVCDPN[DCFO[

a brief history of Electron ‣ OPEFXFCLJU OPEFKTNPEVMF ‣
OPEFXFCLJU GSBNFXPSL ‣ BUPNTIFMMTUBSUFE ‣ BUPNTIFMMPQFOTPVSDFE ‣ SFOBNFEUP&MFDUSPO ‣ &MFDUSPO

story started from node-webkit

early days of node-webkit ‣ TPMPEFWFMPQFS ‣ JOUFSOQSPKFDU ‣ TUBSUFEXJUIVTFST

early days of node-webkit ‣ TPMPEFWFMPQFS ‣ JOUFSOQSPKFDU ‣ TUBSUFEXJUIVTFST
‣ OPPOFHBWFBBCPVUJU

set a target ‣ lEFWFMPQEFTLUPQBQQTXJUIIUNMBOEOPEFKTz ‣ UIFSFXFSFQSPKFDUTEPJOHTJNJMBSUIJOHT ‣ CVUBMMPGUIFNXFSF

after spending a few months developing node-webkit

built a simple community ‣ (JU)VCJTTVFT ‣ NBJMJOHMJTUPO(PPHMFHSPVQ

promotion ‣ BEWFSUJTFEBUNBJMJOHMJTUT ‣ BOTXFSFEBMMLJOETPGRVFTUJPOT ‣ LFQUQVCMJTIJOHOFXSFMFBTFT

got ﬁrst user

kept early users ‣ NBEFUIFNIBQQZ ‣ DBSFGVMMZUSFBUFEFWFSZJTTVFBOEQVMMSFRVFTU

the project became famous

what to do next (usually) ‣ BTLGPSTQPOTPSTIJQT ‣ HFUDPOUSJCVUPSTJOUPUIFUFBN ‣
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what to do next (usually) ‣ BTLGPSTQPOTPSTIJQT ‣ HFUDPOUSJCVUPSTJOUPUIFUFBN ‣
TUBSUBDBSFFS ‣ LFFQUIFQSPKFDUSPMMJOH

however for me... ‣ UIFPSJHJOBMBVUIPSUPPLPWFSMFBEFSTIJQ ‣ *IBEEJ⒎FSFOUPQJOJPOTXJUIIJN☹

started the atom-shell project

ﬁrst year of Electron ‣ TPMPEFWFMPQFS ‣ EFWFMPQFETFDSFUMZGPS(JU)VC

open sourced after one year ‣ BQSPEVDUPG(JU)VC ‣ XJUIBOPQFOTPVSDFVTFS"UPN

open sourced after one year ‣ BQSPEVDUPG(JU)VC ‣ XJUIBOPQFOTPVSDFVTFS"UPN ‣
OJDFMBVODIL TUBSTpSTUEBZ ‣ HPUMPUTPGVTFSTPOFBSMZEBZT

keep project well maintained

community channels ‣ 4MBDL ‣ GPSVN ‣ OPNBJMJOHMJTU ‣ OPRVFTUJPOTJO(JU)VCJTTVFT

answer every issue ‣ NBLFFWFSZJTTVFUBHHFEPSDMPTFE ‣ FYQMBJOXIZUIFJTTVFJTDMPTFE ‣ HJWFDPOUSJCVUPSTQFSNJTTJPOUPDMPTFJTTVFT

respect pull requests ‣ SFWJFXQVMMSFRVFTUTJOUJNF ‣ HVJEFUIFDPOUSJCVUPSTUISPVHIDPEFSFWJFX

respect pull requests ‣ SFWJFXQVMMSFRVFTUTJOUJNF ‣ HVJEFUIFDPOUSJCVUPSTUISPVHIDPEFSFWJFX ‣ CVUBMTPCFTUSJDUBCPVUQVMMSFRVFTUT ‣
DPEFRVBMJUZJTNPTUJNQPSUBOU ‣ SFGBDUPSUIFDPEFBGUFSNFSHJOH

make contribution easy ‣ lCPPUTUSBQzTDSJQU ‣ EFWFMPQNFOUEPDVNFOUBUJPO ‣ DPEJOHTUZMFBOECFTUQSBDUJDF ‣
UBHUBTLTGPSCFHJOOFST

companies started to use it

company users are good ‣ UIFQSPKFDUXJMMOFWFSEJFXIFOQFPQMFBSF NBLJOHNPOFZGSPNJU ‣ IBWJOHDPNQBOZVTFSTBUUSBDUTNPSFVTFST ‣
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they can be bad ‣ UIFJSTQFDJBMOFFETNBZEJTUVSCZPVSQMBO ‣ UIFZNBZKVTUGPSLUIFQSPKFDU

then there are too many users for one developer to
handle

grew to a team ‣ IBWFPUIFS(JU)VCEFWFMPQFSTKPJO&MFDUSPO ‣ IJSFOFXEFWFMPQFST ‣ XFBSFIJSJOH

want to join electron team? send email to [email protected]

thank you

a community story of Electron

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