The old Google Chat app was built with Electron, a framework for developing apps using the server-side JavaScript runtime, node.js, and Google's high-powered JavaScript engine, V8.

The app gives users the chance to chat anonymously across Windows, ... Javascript -- and already supports a number of languages, as well as the fact Instantbird is an XUL application.

More on this topic: Building Web Apps with SignalR, Part 1; In Part 1, I covered how to use the SignalR persistent connection API to create a simple real-time chat Web application.This installment ...

Google Chat, the service formerly known as Hangouts Chat, has a new app that works on any PC with Chrome. The messaging service has long had a desktop application, but this Progressive Web App ...