Electron, Frontend Masters

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Setup Instructions http://tinyurl.com/fem-electron (Pull from master one more time on each repository if you cloned them yesterday.)

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Building Desktop Applications with Electron Steve Kinney — @stevekinney

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I'm Steve. @stevekinney

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http://turing.io

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http://bit.ly/electronjs

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http://dinosaurjs.org

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Today's Flow Take a 10,000 Foot View Build a Simple Bookmarking Application Build a More Complicated Markdown Text Editor Build a Menu Bar Application Package an Application Distribution Tour Some of the Finer Points of the Ecosystem

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Electron (née Atom Shell)

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Electron (née Atom Shell) A framework for building cross-platform desktop applications with web technologies.

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So, why would you want to use this Electron thing?

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You want to build an application that has advanced permissions like accessing the ﬁle system.

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You want to build a small application that lives in the user’s menubar or system tray.

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You want to build an app that works well ofﬂine.

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You want to be able to Command/Alt-Tab to your application.

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You want to build a GUI for your Node application.

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@noopkat

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sindresorhus/caprine

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Why is Electron so super cool?

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Chrome Content Module HTML5 support GPU acceleration Blink and V8

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Node 6.5.0 Filesystem access Native modules

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Electron uses a pretty modern build of Chromium. Electron: 1.4.6 Node: 6.5.0 Chromium: 53.0.2785.143 V8: 5.3.332.47

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HTML Imports Shadow DOM Custom Elements Web MIDI API (…and other hard to draw APIs…)

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The web browser lives in a kind of sandbox with a bunch of restrictions in place in the name of security.

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Electron applications have all of the freedom of any other Node process.

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require(…);

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You get to choose.

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muan/mojibar

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How does Electron work?

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Let's take a look at a everything from a high level before we dig in.

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npm install -g electron

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Inherently, ofﬂine ﬁrst.

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Building a menu

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And more…

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versus

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No good.

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electron.remote

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Let's get started. https://tinyurl.com/fem-electron http://41391da0.ngrok.io

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Code time.

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Building Menu Bar Applications with Electron

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npm install menubar

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Code time.

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Distribution

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npm install electron-packager

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npm install electron

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What about JSX or SASS or LESS?

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npm install electron-prebuilt-compile npm install electron-packager-compile

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Want better insight into the user's macOS settings?

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npm install electron-osx-appearance

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What about an application that launches when the OS boots?

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npm install auto-launch

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Need a graphical user interface for sudo?

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npm install electron-sudo

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Want to have local shortcuts that aren't menu items?

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npm install electron-localshortcut

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Want to use the latest and greatest features coming to JavaScript?

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npm install babel-preset-electron

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Did watching me try to manage state make you want to cry?

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npm install electron-redux

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What about Ember CLI?

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ember install ember-electron

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sindresorhus/awesome-electron

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Electron in Action: http://bit.ly/electronjs Turing School: http://turing.io Thank You Twitter: @stevekinney