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Electron Projects: Build over 9 cross-platform desktop applications from scratch
A project-based guide to help you create, package, and deploy desktop applications on multiple platforms using modern JavaScript frameworks
Key FeaturesUse your web development skills with JavaScript and Node.js to build desktop applications for macOS and WindowsDevelop desktop versions of popular mobile applications that are similar to Slack, Spotify, and moreDesign desktop apps with automatic updates and real-time analytics capabilitiesBook DescriptionThe 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.
You’ll explore the process of configuring modern JavaScript frameworks and UI libraries, real-time analytics and automatic updates, and interactions with the operating system. You’ll get hands-on with building a basic Electron app, before moving on to implement a Markdown Editor. In addition to this, you’ll be able to experiment with major JavaScript frameworks such as Angular and Vue.js, discovering ways to integrate them with Electron apps for building cross-platform desktop apps. Later, you’ll learn to build a screenshot snipping tool, a mini-game, and a music player, while also gaining insights into analytics, bug tracking, and licensing. You’ll then get to grips with building a chat app, an eBook generator and finally a simple digital wallet app.
By the end of this book, you’ll have experience in building a variety of projects and project templates that will help you to apply your knowledge when creating your own cross-platform applications.
What you will learnInitialize Node.js, Node Package Manager (NPM), and JavaScript to set up your appIntegrate Phaser with Electron to build a simple 2D gameImprove app quality by adding an error tracking system and crash reportsImplement group chat features and event handling capabilities using FirebaseIntegrate a WordPress-like rich-text editor into your appBuild Electron applications using a single codebaseWho this book is forThis 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.
Table of ContentsBuilding your first Electron applicationBuilding a Markdown EditorIntegrating with Angular, React, and VueBuilding a screenshot snipping toolMaking a 2D gameBuilding a music playerAnalytics, Bug Tracking, and LicensingBuild a group chat application with FirebaseBuilding an eBook editor and generatorBuilding a digital wallet for desktops
Key FeaturesUse your web development skills with JavaScript and Node.js to build desktop applications for macOS and WindowsDevelop desktop versions of popular mobile applications that are similar to Slack, Spotify, and moreDesign desktop apps with automatic updates and real-time analytics capabilitiesBook DescriptionThe 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.
You’ll explore the process of configuring modern JavaScript frameworks and UI libraries, real-time analytics and automatic updates, and interactions with the operating system. You’ll get hands-on with building a basic Electron app, before moving on to implement a Markdown Editor. In addition to this, you’ll be able to experiment with major JavaScript frameworks such as Angular and Vue.js, discovering ways to integrate them with Electron apps for building cross-platform desktop apps. Later, you’ll learn to build a screenshot snipping tool, a mini-game, and a music player, while also gaining insights into analytics, bug tracking, and licensing. You’ll then get to grips with building a chat app, an eBook generator and finally a simple digital wallet app.
By the end of this book, you’ll have experience in building a variety of projects and project templates that will help you to apply your knowledge when creating your own cross-platform applications.
What you will learnInitialize Node.js, Node Package Manager (NPM), and JavaScript to set up your appIntegrate Phaser with Electron to build a simple 2D gameImprove app quality by adding an error tracking system and crash reportsImplement group chat features and event handling capabilities using FirebaseIntegrate a WordPress-like rich-text editor into your appBuild Electron applications using a single codebaseWho this book is forThis 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.
Table of ContentsBuilding your first Electron applicationBuilding a Markdown EditorIntegrating with Angular, React, and VueBuilding a screenshot snipping toolMaking a 2D gameBuilding a music playerAnalytics, Bug Tracking, and LicensingBuild a group chat application with FirebaseBuilding an eBook editor and generatorBuilding a digital wallet for desktops
436 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 29, 2019
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November 22, 2022
This book is an excellent introduction to working with the Electron development framework to produce cross-platform OS applications leveraging the web development environment. The book has a well-paced and expanding organization and structure. The author uses several useful application examples developed to working apps and introduces several non-electron packages, library, and environments which supplement the primary focus on Electron to assist the beginner in integrating other useful open source. In my opinion there are other major areas of cross-platform which could have been mentioned and examples would have made this book a home run. Specifically, Web Assembly would allow non-specific (non-javascript) library to be integrated with an Electron app to allow true cross-platform development of any imaginable library component. I'm not an expert and do not know how Non-javascript Non-web open source integrates with node.js and Electron But I expect when it does, Electron will be a prime development direction for any cross-platform app.
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