#Use Electron to build psychological online experiments?

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gilded spruce
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Hello everyone, I am new to electron (and also kind of new to programming) so please apologize my possibly unsavy questions.
I am currently planning a research experiment for participants to do at home. Within the experiment, participants are presented with auditory and visual stimuli, that are either presented simultaneously or subsequently. Sometimes a reaction (keypress) is required. It is important that the timing of the presented stimuli is as accurate as possible, such that for example within the simultaneous condition, the onset of the auditory word is synchronous to the onset display of the visual stimulus.
Online Experiment Generators that are already available are often quite unsatisfying with respect to accurate presentational timing and show huge lags with huge differences between OS and browsers. So this is unfortunately not an option.
My question is, whether the described purpose is feasible with electron and also whether there might be some similar projects already in the making to share knowledge and help each other out.

Thanks in advance 🙂

terse raft
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Hi Johanna! IMO, Electron would have one advantage over the general web platform: it would allow you to pin the browser engine version so you won't have discrepancies from someone running Safari vs Chrome or even Chrome 90 vs Chrome 104.