# JavaScript + Electron to make a discourse forum into app?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/javascript-electron-to-make-a-discourse-forum-into-app/92895
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [July 22, 2018, 9:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/javascript-electron-to-make-a-discourse-forum-into-app/92895 "2018-07-22T21:30:45Z")
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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2018, 2:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/javascript-electron-to-make-a-discourse-forum-into-app/92895/2 "2018-07-23T02:01:54Z")

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This question is not making much sense to me.

Electron is used for **desktop** not **mobile** application and if you really really wanted desktop you could already use:

> [@Desktop PWA works with Discourse!](https://meta.discourse.org/t/experimental-desktop-pwa-works-with-discourse/86348):
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> I remember getting pretty upset when [Chrome shutdown the app launcher](https://www.androidauthority.com/say-bye-chrome-app-launcher-704694/), this was a feature I used on quite a few sites. Luckily thanks to work we have done for Android you can have it back now on your Discourse site. Head to: chrome://flags/#enable-desktop-pwas , turn it on. If you also want to capture links and send to the page enable Desktop PWAs Link Capturing and there is also some extra caching you can turn on. Then, visit your Discourse site and click “Install to desktop..” Y…

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