Electron Development - A Mini-Sized Guide for 2025 - Brainhub

Because Electron apps are essentially browser windows with a Node.js server running in the background, they tend to consume a significant amount of memory. Because of that it doesn’t make much sense to use Electron for simple utilities. Electron apps can also be very large compared with their native counterparts. The difference in size can be especially pronounced when it comes to apps that don’t pack too many features.