Don Wibier (DevExpress), Creating Desktop Apps for Windows, Mac OS and Linux with your favorite web-tools and Electron, CodeFest 2017

https://2017.codefest.ru/lecture/1212

Did you ever wonder how Microsoft manages to deploy Visual Studio Code cross-platform?

Join Technical Evangelist Don Wibier as he shows you how to set up an HTML5/JavaScript application and deploy it to run as a desktop app on Windows, Mac OS and Linux by using one of the hottest technologies available today — Electron.

You will get an overview on how this process works and how you can create your own desktop apps targeted at the different operating systems.

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1. Building Desktop Apps for Windows, Mac OS and Linux with your favorite web-tools Don Wibier Technical Evangelist
2. JavaScript Desktop Apps Desktop Apps with your favorite web-tools For Windows, Mac OS and Linux #ONLYtheBEST The hot ingredient for cross platform desktop apps ? electron
3. JavaScript Desktop Apps Desktop Apps with web-tools and Electron For Windows, Mac OS and Linux #ONLYtheBEST What is Electron? It is a framework for creating native applications with web technologies like JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
4. JavaScript Desktop Apps Desktop Apps with web-tools and Electron For Windows, Mac OS and Linux #ONLYtheBEST How does it work?
5. JavaScript Desktop Apps Desktop Apps with web-tools and Electron For Windows, Mac OS and Linux #ONLYtheBEST What’s in the box? ✓ Automatic updates ✓ Native Menus & notifications ✓ App crash reporting ✓ Debugging & profiling ✓ Packaging and Windows Installers
6. JavaScript Desktop Apps Desktop Apps with web-tools and Electron For Windows, Mac OS and Linux #ONLYtheBEST Toolkit for this session! ✓ VisualStudio Code / Atom Editor ✓ NodeJS and NPM ✓ My favorite: DevExtreme ✓ Windows desktop ✓ Linux desktop ✓ Mac computer
7. JavaScript Desktop Apps Desktop Apps with dev-tools and Electron For Windows, Mac OS and Linux #ONLYtheBEST Let’s build something! Small ToDo application using an SQLite database for storage
8. Thank You! #ONLYtheBEST devexpress Facebook @devexpress Twitter support@devexpress.com Support Don Wibier donw@devexpress.com @donwibier