Space City JS — Using Electron & React to Build N1

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Using Electron & React to Build N1: The Open Source Email Client Evan Morikawa | @e0m | [email protected] | May 14 2016 Nylas

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Standing on the shoulders of giants Evan Morikawa | @e0m | [email protected] | May 14 2016 Nylas

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How do we: Deliver to the desktop Support 3rd party plugins Keep data & view in sync Work offline Keep it performant Pay it forward

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How do we: Deliver to the desktop Support 3rd party plugins Keep data & view in sync Work offline Keep it performant Pay it forward

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Shell NW.js (Node Webkit) Swing | Qt | Cocoa | GTK | WPF/WinRT

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Shell

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Chromium

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Chromium Browser aka Backend aka Main Process

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Chromium Browser aka Backend aka Main Process C++

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Chromium Browser aka Backend aka Main Process C++ Renderer Renderer Renderer HTML / JS (DOM) HTML / JS (DOM) HTML / JS (DOM)

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Chromium Browser aka Backend aka Main Process C++ Renderer Renderer Renderer HTML / JS (DOM) HTML / JS (DOM) HTML / JS (DOM) ipc

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Browser aka Backend aka Main Process Renderer Renderer Renderer HTML / JS (DOM) HTML / JS (DOM) HTML / JS (DOM) ipc

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Nylas N1

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Nylas N1 main.js

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Nylas N1 main.js const win = new BrowserWindow() win.loadURL(`file://index.html`) win.show()

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Nylas N1 main.js const win = new BrowserWindow() win.loadURL(`file://index.html`) win.show()

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Nylas N1 main.js const win = new BrowserWindow() win.loadURL(`file://index.html`) win.show() index.html index.js

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Nylas N1 main.js const win = new BrowserWindow() win.loadURL(`file://index.html`) win.show() index.html index.js React.render()

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Nylas N1 main.js const win = new BrowserWindow() win.loadURL(`file://index.html`) win.show() index.html index.js React.render()

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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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How do we: Deliver to the desktop Support 3rd party plugins Keep data & view in sync Work offline Keep it performant Pay it forward

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  Actions.registerComponent(TranslateButton, { location:’composer-actions’ })

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React ReactiveX.js Redux Flux +

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ReactiveX.js

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const q = `SELECT * FROM threads WHERE …` Rx.Observable.fromQuery(q).subscribe((threads) => { this.setState({threads}) })

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const q = `SELECT * FROM threads WHERE …` Rx.Observable.fromQuery(q) .filter(myFn).subscribe((threads) => { this.setState({threads}) })

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const q = `SELECT * FROM threads WHERE …` Rx.Observable.fromQuery(q) .filter(myFn) .map(mapFn).subscribe((threads) => { this.setState({threads}) })

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Web SQL Local Storage

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Web SQL Local Storage

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Web SQL Local Storage

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https://github.com/nylas/n1 Open Source

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