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How to get started with Electron

Jimmy Moon
September 19, 2015
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How to get started with Electron

Describe essential knowledge for getting started Electron

Jimmy Moon

September 19, 2015
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  1. Web Tech Use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript with Chromium and

    Node.js to build your app - Any Web Frameworks and Libraries - React, AngularJS, Polymer, WinJS, jQuery, Bootstrap, Photonkit … - Node integration issue [1], [2] - Latest Chromium via libchromiumcontent - Chromium Content API, Webkit API(V8) - Bumped new stable Chrome version within one or two weeks after release - Chromium: v47.0.2526.110, V8: v4.7.80.27 - Stable and Latest APIs on Node.js - Upgrading after a month to avoid bugs - Ready to latest features going with V8 upgrades - v5.1.1 (Node.js stable v5.4.1) - ES2015 shipping features is default - Supporting from over 200,000 npm packages by Electron v0.36.4 -2016/01/16
  2. Open Source Electron is open source; maintained by GitHub and

    an active community - Github !!! - Supporting from powerful-big-vendors - Many of Open source apps as a sample - Got blessed by npm module developers
  3. Cross Platform Electron apps build and run on Mac, Windows,

    and Linux - One-stop build for Electron apps - Auto update
 except Linux so far - MAS (Mac App Store) Submission - ARM devices support - Platform features
  4. - Squirrel/Squirrel.Windows · GitHub - https://goo.gl/O6nvbb
 - Squirrel/Squirrel.Mac: Cocoa framework

    for updating OS X apps - https://goo.gl/DvnGsa - atom/grunt-electron-installer: Grunt plugin to build Windows installers for Electron apps - https://goo.gl/1KerLO
  5. Electron Somethings we should know - Node.js, npm - Web

    technologies - Platform features - Electron Architecture - Running Electron app - Debugging and Testing Electron app - Packaging Electron app
  6. Electron Installation Get Electron - Build with source on Mac

    - Download released files - electron-prebuilt
  7. Electron, Hello Hello! - Project tree of Electron App ȍȇȇ

    index.js ȍȇȇ package.json ȍȇȇ index.html ȍȇȇ index.css ȍȇȇ license Ȍȇȇ readme.md - index.js is MUST. 
 Entry point of Electron app
 - package.json is SHOULD. 
 For dependencies and project info - index.html is.
 for view of Electron app but not requirement
  8. - Inspector via Chrome Dev Tools - node-inspector for Debugging


    on Main Process - console.log or LOG(INFO) - Automated testing - Chrome Driver for Electron - spectron Electron Testing npm test
  9. Electron Packaging Ready to shipping - Packaging via electron-packager -

    Installer via electron-builder - Signing helper for MAS - App packaging with asar - Like tar but no extract, random access - Avoiding of exposing app’s source code - Code protection? - Not supporting a way of code protection on Electron - mksnapshot, (V8) Snapshot for Electron - Packaging with asar - Using commercial software for protection - Using edge.js and edge-atom-shell for Windows (Slack) - Using dynamic library loader via node-ffi
  10. - Well-structured project - Up-to-date features and updates - Neat(-est)

    source code of boilerplate - Prepared configure and scripts sindresorhus/generator-electron: Scaffold out an Electron app boilerplate - https://goo.gl/rMOGCp