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Electron gives you far, far more access to native libraries and hardware than PWAs will ever dream about. People are still arguing about how to expose USB devices, bluetooth, etc. in the browser for example. With an electron app you can just npm install a few native wrapper libs and go to town. It's great for moving clunky old native GUI apps (IDEs, etc.) to a more modern cross-platform codebase.



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