Electron for Chromebooks?
Sunday, December 13, 2015 by Dave Winer
- Chromebooks are super popular.
- I'm only now getting a sense for that.
- So here's the question. Can you use Electron to develop apps for Chromebooks?
- It seems it should be possible. It seems it should be an almost ideal way to package Chromebook apps.
- Unless Chromebooks don't have a filesystem.
- Maybe every app is in a sandbox. Probably is. But couldn't that sandbox be a filesystem.
Under the covers Chrome OS is Linux. It has a filesystem.
There is a recent page on the electron site that says you can run it on chromebook and raspberry pi. The sticky wicket has been the node.js requirement. ChromeOS is a linux version and it's got a tiny little filesystem. Many hackers have got it going, something about chroot and "crouton" on ARM and things, but I still haven't found a plain old "install" for chromebook.