Our team at Nylas has been incredibly lucky to build on the shoulders of the folks at GitHub and I&#x27;d just like to thank Kevin, zcbenz, Jessica, and their entire team. They&#x27;ve been awesome to work with and super supportive of this new community.<p>Our early prototypes of Nylas N1 were built on Angular in the browser, and then Adobe Brackets, but we couldn&#x27;t really get it to a level that felt great and worked offline. It wasn&#x27;t until we decided to fork Atom (the previous base of Electron) that we started breaking past the &quot;uncanny valley&quot; of wrapped webviews and discovered an application stack that allowed quick cross-platform deployment alongside native code modules.<p>After building on Electron&#x2F;AtomShell for 18 months and seeing the community grow, I can definitely say there is something really special here. We&#x27;ve still got a lot of work to do on N1 (email is hard!) but we&#x27;re confident Electron is the right platform for this type of extensible app.<p>A secondary reason we open sourced N1 was to serve as a reference implementation of a large Electron app. There still isn&#x27;t a great resource for &quot;best practices&quot; when creating complex Electron apps with lots of moving parts. Now that we&#x27;ve hit 1.0, I think it&#x27;s time to change that!<p>If you have a free afternoon, I <i>definitely</i> recommend playing around with Electron. It will likely change your outlook on the future of desktop software. :)