Apps built with Electron are “compatible with Mac, Windows, and Linux”, that is, “Electron apps build and run on three platforms”. The unique selling point of Electron is that it allows you to “build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS”. But why is that? Before I answer, let’s look at Electron, the platform.
Honestly, no one has even started the submission process to any of the stores. To this day, the initial goal set by that is, to submit Excalidraw to the various app stores, has not been reached yet. While work on converting the version of Excalidraw into a PWA was started by and later others, independently went ahead and created a separate repo for Excalidraw Desktop. The decision that took in the end was simple: On Desktop, Chrome lets you download a desktop shortcut to a PWA.
What about making it a PWA instead? Android currently supports adding them to the Play Store as Trusted Web Activities and hopefully iOS will do the same soon. The immediate reaction by was to suggest: Would be great to wrap Excalidraw within Electron (or equivalent) and publish it as a application to the various app stores. Soon after created the initial version of Excalidraw in January 2020 and blogged about it, he proposed the following in Issue #561:
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