electron-windows-store

Slack isn't the only Electron app in the MS Store. There's an entire guide on building Electron apps for the Store: https://electronjs.org/docs/tutorial/windows-store-guide Microsoft devs have even contributed to the tool mentioned in that article (and Microsoft is listed in the MIT license copyright statement): https://github.com/felixrieseberg/electron-windows-store

There's an automated packager for the Centennial/Desktop Bridge: https://github.com/felixrieseberg/electron-windows-store Slack in the Windows Store is packaged by that. It packages the Win32 executable, so it only runs on Desktop environments. If your codebase is adaptable enough, you can often run directly on the Windows 10 Native HTML+JS stack and cross-compile to that, either directly or maybe through Cordova if you want mobile platform reach. (I'm wishing there were more convergence between the Electron and Cordova stacks, but writing portable code that mostly runs on both isn't terribly difficult. Every now and then it would be great to have a Cordova plugin in Electron or vice versa.)

Words do have meaning but "native" has pretty unclear meaning. Is JavaScript native? JavaScript is interpreted when it first starts, but eventually turns into machine code through JIT by most JS engines. So is JavaScript native because it gets converted to machine code, just as C++ does? If you say no, then you're saying only AOT compiled languages are "native". So that eliminates Python, Erlang, Java. Even C#, the "native" language on Windows is not AOT (in most cases). So that doesn't work, AOT has nothing to do with native. JavaScript is just as native as any other language. So maybe the problem is the UI, right? That's where most people seem to have a problem. So as long as you are using Cocoa on OSX, GTK on Gnome, Metro on Windows, you're native, right? Oh, wait, Metro apps can be written using HTML, JS, and CSS. They are essentially