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Building Desktop Applications with Electron, Fluent 2016

Steve Kinney
March 08, 2016
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Building Desktop Applications with Electron, Fluent 2016

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  1. Building Desktop Applications with Node and Electron Steve Kinney —

    @stevekinney Fluent 2016

  2. http://bit.ly/fluent-electron

  3. Hi. I'm Steve

  4. http://turing.io

  5. http://dinosaurjs.org

  6. http://bit.ly/fluent-electron Introduction to Electron Building Two Applications • Fire Sale

    • Clipmaster 9000
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  10. Electron (née Atom Shell)

  11. Electron (née Atom Shell) A framework for building cross-platform desktop

    applications with web technologies.
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  13. So, why would you want to use this Electron thing?

  14. You want to build an application that has advanced permissions

    like accessing the file system.

  15. You want to build a small application that lives in

    the user’s menubar or system tray.

  16. You want to build an app that works well offline.

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

  18. You want to build a GUI for your Node application.

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  23. sindresorhus/caprine

  24. Why is Electron so super cool?

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  26. Chrome Content Module HTML5 support GPU acceleration Blink and V8

  27. Node 5.1.1 Filesystem access Native modules

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  30. Electron uses a pretty modern build of Chromium.

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  34. 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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  37. Ugh. Gross.

  38. Electron applications have all of the freedom of any other

    Node process.
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  40. require(…);

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  44. hij1nx/levelui

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  55. muan/mojibar

  56. How does Electron work?

  57. npm install -g electron-prebuilt

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  77. Inherently, offline first.

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  85. versus

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  93. No good.

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  95. electron.remote

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  105. Building a menu

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  115. electron.globalShortcut

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  118. And more…

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  120. npm install -g electron-prebuilt

  121. npm install menubar

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  124. Let's get started.

  125. npm install -g electron-packager

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  128. npm install -g electron-accelerator

  129. npm install -g electron-compile

  130. The Future for Electron

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  132. sindresorhus/awesome-electron

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  134. http://turing.io http://dinosaurjs.org