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Electron Projects

This is the code repository for Electron Projects, published by Packt.

Build over 9 cross-platform desktop applications from scratch

What is this book about?

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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Instructions and Navigations

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).

Software and Hardware List

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)

Get to Know the Author

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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