Hank of course you are right! But the current project has a complete infrastructure in place and that is not going to change in the next few years. I.e. database replication is there, existing desktops apps (the ones I wrote 8 years ago) are not going anywhere soon, hardware servers are there, and the client is completely paranoid about the web. Actually, I don't blame him. Also the hippa is in place too. So using owncloud, or any intra - web is really not on the table. That said, if I do this right I'll have the best of both worlds - the holy grail? I'll have an exe running html, css, javascript and I be ready to move the code to the web (that assumes that I can talk the client into doing it). I might be looking to far ahead but I think it might work. Also as I said I really want CSS. My GUI lib's have been left in the dust because of CSS.

I'm not sure you know I purchased Lianja. After working with it for a short period I realized that it wasn't my cup of tea. I wanted something I knew wouldn't go away because someone died or the company was purchased by M$ and then killed in a couple of years. Like you my choice was Python and that has paid off. In fact I wish I could stay with Python.

There is no reason that I can see at the moment that Electron can't work as a Universal Windows App - unless you know something I don't. So I'm not to worried about windows. Actually, I'm more concerned with Mac's. As far as phone-gap goes I doubt I'll have to worry about phones or tablets in the near future as the apps require lot's of keyboard action. That said, I think voice input might work!

Where my data is located (Azure, AWS, or Local) does not concerned me because it will still work. Of course I might have to write some sort NodeJS module to get it to work. I'll guess and say I can get that done?

BTW I'm looking at Vue JS thanks to it's small size and it's community. I have Vue running with Electron (someone already wrote the boilerplate) and I like what it can do. Vue does not stop me from using Bootstrap and if I need it and therefore I can support all the mobile stuff.

So even if the desktop world changes (becomes one with the web, or becomes one with the mobile world) I think Electron will work. The real concern is if Electron it self gets abandoned - like many other open source projects. So what do you think is Github going away?

Johnf