This is the code repository for Electron Projects, published by Packt.
Build over 9 cross-platform desktop applications from scratch
The Electron framework allows you to use modern web technologies to build applications that share the same code across all operating systems and platforms. This also helps designers to easily transition from the web to the desktop. Electron Projects guides you through building cross-platform Electron apps with modern web technologies and JavaScript frameworks such as Angular, React.js, and Vue.js.
This book covers the following exciting features:
- Initialize Node.js, Node Package Manager (NPM), and JavaScript to set up your app
- Integrate Phaser with Electron to build a simple 2D game
- Improve app quality by adding an error tracking system and crash reports
- Implement group chat features and event handling capabilities using Firebase
- Integrate a WordPress-like rich-text editor into your app
- Build Electron applications using a single codebase
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All of the code is organized into folders. For example, Chapter02.
The code will look like the following:
win = new BrowserWindow({
width: 800,
height: 600,
webPreferences: {
nodeIntegration: true
}
frame: false
});
Following is what you need for this book: This book is for JavaScript developers who want to explore the Electron framework for building desktop apps. Working knowledge of modern frontend JavaScript frameworks and Node.js is assumed. No prior knowledge of desktop development is required.
With the following software and hardware list you can run all code files present in the book (Chapter 1-10).
| Chapter | Software required | OS required |
|---|---|---|
| 1 - 10 | Node.js | Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Any) |
| 1 - 10 | Visual Studio Code | Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Any) |
| 3 | Vue CLI | Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Any) |
| 3 | Angular CLI | Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Any) |
| 9 | Docker Desktop Community | Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Any) |
| 10 | Ganache | Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Any) |
Denys Vuika is an application platform developer and tech lead at Alfresco Software Inc. He is a full stack developer and a constant open source contributor. He has more than 16 years of programming experience, including 10 years of frontend development with AngularJS, Angular, ASP.NET, React.js, and other modern web technologies, and more than three years of experience of Node.js development. Denys works with web technologies on a daily basis. He has a good understanding of cloud development and the containerization of web applications.
He is a frequent Medium blogger and is the author of the Developing with Angular book on Angular, JavaScript, and TypeScript development. He also maintains a series of Angular-based open source projects.
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