I've been tinkering with Electron over the last few days, starting on the 3rd, with excellent results. 

I'm going to try shipping a simple desktop app for the Mac that's a simple outliner, using Little Outliner as the model.  

I discovered the electron-packager module that makes the whole build process automatic. Here's the terminal command that builds the app.

<code>electron-packager . myoutliner --platform=darwin --arch=all --version=0.35.4 --overwrite</code>

It was really fun to put this thing together, because there was no need for identity, no struggle to save the outlines. It was just like the old days. Store it on the users' hard drive. Let them pick the spot. Write and read OPML files. Bing!

One interesting fact: The app is 104MB. Hard to imagine what's taking up all that space. But it's not really a problem, the net connections these days are pretty fast and the disks are huge.