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Evan Morikawa
June 03, 2016
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JS Takes the Desktop — Scotland JS
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JS Takes The Desktop Evan Morikawa | @e0m |
[email protected]
| June 2016 SCOTLAND JS Electron, React, & Native Win/Mac/Linux Experiences At Scale
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Swing Qt Cocoa GTK WPF/WinRT …
NW.js (Node Webkit)
Shell
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Chromium
Chromium Browser aka Backend aka Main Process
Chromium Browser aka Backend aka Main Process C++
Chromium Browser aka Backend aka Main Process C++ Renderer Renderer
Renderer HTML / JS (DOM) HTML / JS (DOM) HTML / JS (DOM)
Chromium Browser aka Backend aka Main Process C++ Renderer Renderer
Renderer HTML / JS (DOM) HTML / JS (DOM) HTML / JS (DOM) ipc
Browser aka Backend aka Main Process Renderer Renderer Renderer HTML
/ JS (DOM) HTML / JS (DOM) HTML / JS (DOM) ipc
Nylas N1
Nylas N1 main.js
Nylas N1 main.js const win = new BrowserWindow() win.loadURL(`file://index.html`) win.show()
Nylas N1 main.js const win = new BrowserWindow() win.loadURL(`file://index.html`) win.show()
Nylas N1 main.js const win = new BrowserWindow() win.loadURL(`file://index.html`) win.show()
index.html index.js
Nylas N1 main.js const win = new BrowserWindow() win.loadURL(`file://index.html`) win.show()
index.html index.js React.render()
Nylas N1 main.js const win = new BrowserWindow() win.loadURL(`file://index.html`) win.show()
index.html index.js React.render()
Nylas N1 main.js const win = new BrowserWindow() win.loadURL(`file://index.html`) win.show()
index.html index.js React.render() Composer Work Window
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JS on the Desktop 1. “Native” experience 2. Performance 3.
Data Storage & Offline 4. Plugins & Extensibility
JS on the Desktop 1. “Native” experience 2. Performance 3.
Data Storage & Offline 4. Plugins & Extensibility
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JS on the Desktop 1. “Native” experience 2. Performance 3.
Data Storage & Offline 4. Plugins & Extensibility Native extensions | Cross-platform CSS | Retina Detail
JS on the Desktop 1. “Native” experience 2. Performance 3.
Data Storage & Offline 4. Plugins & Extensibility Native extensions | Cross-platform CSS | Retina Detail
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JS on the Desktop 1. “Native” experience 2. Performance 3.
Data Storage & Offline 4. Plugins & Extensibility Native extensions | Cross-platform CSS | Retina Detail Jasnkbusting | Worker windows
JS on the Desktop 1. “Native” experience 2. Performance 3.
Data Storage & Offline 4. Plugins & Extensibility Native extensions | Cross-platform CSS | Retina Detail Jasnkbusting | Worker windows
ReactiveX.js
ReactiveX.js Thank you @mattpodwysocki!
const q = `SELECT * FROM threads WHERE …` Rx.Observable.fromQuery(q).subscribe((threads)
=> { this.setState({threads}) })
const q = `SELECT * FROM threads WHERE …` Rx.Observable.fromQuery(q)
.filter(myFn).subscribe((threads) => { this.setState({threads}) })
const q = `SELECT * FROM threads WHERE …` Rx.Observable.fromQuery(q)
.filter(myFn) .map(mapFn).subscribe((threads) => { this.setState({threads}) })
JS on the Desktop 1. “Native” experience 2. Performance 3.
Data Storage & Offline 4. Plugins & Extensibility Native extensions | Cross-platform CSS | Retina Detail SQL | Observables | Task Jasnkbusting | Worker windows
JS on the Desktop 1. “Native” experience 2. Performance 3.
Data Storage & Offline 4. Plugins & Extensibility Native extensions | Cross-platform CSS | Retina Detail Jasnkbusting | Worker windows SQL | Observables | Task
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JS on the Desktop 1. “Native” experience 2. Performance 3.
Data Storage & Offline 4. Plugins & Extensibility Native extensions | Cross-platform CSS | Retina Detail React | Components as “data” Jasnkbusting | Worker windows SQL | Observables | Task
JS on the Desktop 1. “Native” experience 2. Performance 3.
Data Storage & Offline 4. Plugins & Extensibility Native extensions | Cross-platform CSS | Retina Detail Jasnkbusting | Worker windows SQL | Observables | Task React | Components as “data”
https://github.com/nylas/n1 Open Source
N1 Core Team https://nylas.com/team @e0m @bengotow @juanstejada @karim_hamidou @jackiehluo Drew
Regitsky
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Evan Morikawa | @e0m |
[email protected]
| June 2016 Thank
you! Slides here
JS Takes The Desktop Evan Morikawa | @e0m |
[email protected]
| June 2016 SCOTLAND JS Electron, React, & Native Win/Mac/Linux Experiences At Scale