--- title: Building the Future of Our Desktop Apps | daily.dev description: Spotify is creating one single desktop UI for both the Desktop application and the Web Player. Spotify has created one maintainable codebase for both of its... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/building-the-future-of-our-desktop-apps-2k3svyfdp twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Building the Future of Our Desktop Apps | daily.dev og:description: Spotify is creating one single desktop UI for both the Desktop application and the Web Player. Spotify has created one maintainable codebase for both of its... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/building-the-future-of-our-desktop-apps-2k3svyfdp og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/2K3sVyfDp.png og:image:alt: Building the Future of Our Desktop Apps og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Building the Future of Our Desktop Apps **[Spotify Labs](https://daily.dev/sources/spotify)** · 9 min read · 21 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary Spotify is creating one single desktop UI for both the Desktop application and the Web Player. Spotify has created one maintainable codebase for both of its clients with the high standard of accessibility and speed of development we hoped for. Spotify’s Desktop client is a Windows and Mac native application using CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework) to display a web-based user interface. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@berkmann18** · 0 upvotes > That was an interesting read and a nice overview of Chrome Embedded Framework which seems like a useful tool for similar problems. --- Tags: [#architecture](https://daily.dev/tags/architecture) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/building-the-future-of-our-desktop-apps-2k3svyfdp) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Building the Future of Our Desktop Apps","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/building-the-future-of-our-desktop-apps-2k3svyfdp","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/building-the-future-of-our-desktop-apps-2k3svyfdp"},"datePublished":"2021-04-07T12:29:52.640Z","dateModified":"2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z","description":"Spotify is creating one single desktop UI for both the Desktop application and the Web Player. 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