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Electron: From Beginner to Pro: Learn to Build Cross Platform Desktop Applications using Github's Electron
Discover how to take your existing web development skills and learn how to create desktop applications for macOS, Windows, and Linux, using GitHub's Electron. Learn how to combine the power of Node.js and Chromium to provide a powerful development platform for creating web applications that break free from the browser.
From Beginner to Pro guides you through the capabilities that you have available to create desktop applications. Learn to use features like file system access, create native menus, OS-specific dialogs and more. The authors will show you how to package your application for distribution for multiple platforms and enable auto-updating.
What You Will LearnLeverage your knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScriptUse current web applications for the desktopCreate and use Electron’s main process and render process to create effective desktop applicationsCommunicate between processes and between windowsBuild desktop applications that can be updated and distributedWho This Book Is For
Web developers looking to leverage their HTML, CSS and JavaScript skills to create desktop widgets and applications.
Developers wanting to leverage existing a Web application to extend functionality with a desktop application.
From Beginner to Pro guides you through the capabilities that you have available to create desktop applications. Learn to use features like file system access, create native menus, OS-specific dialogs and more. The authors will show you how to package your application for distribution for multiple platforms and enable auto-updating.
What You Will LearnLeverage your knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScriptUse current web applications for the desktopCreate and use Electron’s main process and render process to create effective desktop applicationsCommunicate between processes and between windowsBuild desktop applications that can be updated and distributedWho This Book Is For
Web developers looking to leverage their HTML, CSS and JavaScript skills to create desktop widgets and applications.
Developers wanting to leverage existing a Web application to extend functionality with a desktop application.
423 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 22, 2017
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June 2, 2019
A solid introduction to Electron, this book has everything you need to get up and running with Electron.js. On the other hand, the Electron version used in the book is outdated, as at a time of this review the latest version is 5.0.2 but in the book, it's 1.6.x, there is a few breaking changes in API since this book is published, but nothing that a few minutes of googling can't solve.
Really great chapters about packaging, distributing and updating applications, though I've hoped for a bit advanced dive (delta updates, AWS releases, etc.).
Really great chapters about packaging, distributing and updating applications, though I've hoped for a bit advanced dive (delta updates, AWS releases, etc.).
July 5, 2018
This book covers the must-know aspects of Electron and is a good read for those well versed with JavaScript. The examples are good and almost all the important topics have been covered in this book. You can finish it in a day if you are interested enough.
August 8, 2018
A good introduction to Electron. It explains details about the principal parts that it is necessary to know before starting any project with Electron. On the other hand, I was expected more real examples where some of them show connect to a local database or local persistence in the browser.
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