Real world Electron: Building Cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript

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Built a production Electron app called WebTorrent Desktop with 31 releases, 32 contributors, and hundreds of thousands of installs, and documents concrete wins and failures: shipping native installers for Mac/Windows/Linux, supporting 32-bit Windows, reducing startup by ~300ms by deferring requires, using ASAR packaging to fix Windows path limits, avoiding native C modules so one machine builds all platforms, hard lessons about code signing and auto‑updater security, and using crash/error telemetry to cut daily error reports from ~20% toward 10%.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:04REAL-WORLD ELECTRON
3. 7:50CODE SIGNING
4. 15:39WOW64 WINDOWS 32-BIT ON WINDOWS 64-BIT
5. 24:08SERVER SECURE
6. 25:29DOWNLOAD PERFORMANCE
7. 25:41DEPENDENCY HYGIENE
8. 27:06STARTUP PERFORMANCE
9. 29:55MEASURE

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