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Kevin Sawicki
April 23, 2016
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10 things to know about Electron
Presented at DevPulseCon on April 23rd, 2016.
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April 23, 2016
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Transcript
10 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT ELECTRON
KEVIN SAWICKI GITHUB @KEVINSAWICKI
[email protected]
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WHAT IS ELECTRON? #1
BUILD CROSS PLATFORM DESKTOP APPS WITH WEB TECHNOLOGIES http://electron.atom.io WHAT
IS ELECTRON?
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None
5.10 49.0
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WHO IS ELECTRON FOR? #2
IF YOU CAN BUILD A WEBSITE, YOU CAN BUILD A
DESKTOP APP
FREE, OPEN SOURCE STARTED BY GITHUB RELEASED 02/2014
THE HARD PARTS MADE EASY
HOW DOES ELECTRON WORK? #3
main process
main process node
main process menu tray dialog node
main process menu tray dialog window renderer process node ipc
main process menu tray dialog window renderer process node DOM
node ipc
main process menu tray dialog window window window renderer process
node DOM renderer process renderer process node DOM node DOM node ipc
HOW DOES YOUR ELECTRON WORK? #4
ELECTRON IS NOT PRESCRIPTIVE
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REACT? BABEL? BROWSERIFY? GO FOR IT!
ANGULAR? BOOTSTRAP? WEBPACK? GO FOR IT!
OR ENJOY THE PURITY OF CHROME
CUSTOM ELEMENTS? CSS VARIABLES? ES6? GO FOR IT!
USE ANY OF THE 273,000 PACKAGES ON NPM
YOU CHOOSE WHEN TO UPGRADE
ELECTRON APPS FEEL NATIVE #5
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TRAY API
TRAY API FRAMELESS WINDOW
TRAY API FRAMELESS WINDOW TRANSPARENT WINDOW
TRAY API FRAMELESS WINDOW NOTIFICATIONS TRANSPARENT WINDOW
TRAY API FRAMELESS WINDOW NOTIFICATIONS PHOTON CSS TOOLKIT TRANSPARENT WINDOW
None
None
★ TAKE SCREENSHOTS ★ ACCESS MICROPHONE AND CAMERA ★ NATIVE
OPEN, SAVE, MESSAGE DIALOGS ★ ADD CONTEXT AND SYSTEM MENUS ★ REGISTER GLOBAL KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS ★ PREVENT SLEEP MODE ★ REPORT CRASHES
ELECTRON MAKES DEBUGGING EASY #6
JAVASCRIPT DEBUGGER
RENDER TIMELINE
HEAP SNAPSHOTS
BUNDLE AND SHIP ADDITIONAL EXTENSIONS
ELECTRON CAN BE TEST DRIVEN #7
ELECTRON SUPPORTS WEBDRIVER & CHROMEDRIVER
WEBDRIVER IS AN OPEN SOURCE TOOL FOR AUTOMATED TESTING OF
WEB APPS ACROSS MANY BROWSERS. ChromeDriver docs WHAT IS WEBDRIVER?
CHROMEDRIVER IS A STANDALONE SERVER WHICH IMPLEMENTS WEBDRIVER'S WIRE PROTOCOL
FOR CHROMIUM. ChromeDriver docs WHAT IS CHROMEDRIVER?
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ELECTRON APPS ARE OUT THERE #8
SLACK NYLAS N1 ATOM VISUAL STUDIO CODE
WEBTORRENT DESKTOP
★ Streaming torrent client implemented in JavaScript ★ Uses WebRTC
for peer connections ★ Free and open source
JIBO
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ELECTRON HAS AN AMAZING COMMUNITY #9
★ 350 CONTRIBUTORS ★ 1,600 PULL REQUESTS ★ 27,000 STARS
★ 2,800 FORKS ★ 850 PACKAGES ON NPM
NATIVEFIER
SINDRESORHUS/AWESOME-ELECTRON
BAY AREA ELECTRON USER GROUP MAY 25TH @ 6:30 PM
MICROSOFT SF OFFICE HTTP://WWW.MEETUP.COM/BAY-AREA-ELECTRON-USER-GROUP
ELECTRON IS GOING 1.0 #10
API STABILITY
MORE APIS
BETTER DOCS
BETTER TOOLS
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THANKS! HTTP://ELECTRON.ATOM.IO HTTP://GITHUB.COM/ELECTRON @ELECTRONJS