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It's a cache. It's meant to be deleted from time to time, especially if the application is not good at it by itself.
So simply delete the folder. Anything electron will need after that will be re-downloaded when the application is run again.
You should delete the contents of the cache folder instead of the folder itself as sadly some apps will break pretty spectacularly if they can't find the folder itself. Otherwise you're entirely correct
Thank you.
General trick for unknowns like this, you can rename a folder, open the applications. If they work, it is likely safe to delete that folder. If not, you rename that folder back. A simple way to test removing something non-destructively.
Nice trick, thanks.