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  1. http://bit.ly/electron-jsconfco 
 Clone down the two repositories and run npm

    install in each.

  2. Building Desktop Applications with Electron Steve Kinney — @stevekinney JSConf

    Colombia 2016

  3. Hi. I'm Steve
 @stevekinney

  4. http://turing.io

  5. http://dinosaurjs.org

  6. http://bit.ly/electronjs

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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 6.5.0 Filesystem access Native modules

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  30. Electron uses a pretty modern build of Chromium. Electron: 1.4.3

    Node: 6.5.0 Chromium: 53.0.2785.113 V8: 5.3.332.45
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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. Electron applications have all of the freedom of any other

    Node process.
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  39. require(…);

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  43. hij1nx/levelui

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  54. muan/mojibar

  55. How does Electron work?

  56. Let's take a look at a everything from a high

    level before we dig in.

  57. npm install -g electron-prebuilt

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  77. Inherently, offline first.

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  85. versus

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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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  125. Let's get started.

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  127. npm install electron-prebuilt

  128. npm install menubar

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  131. What about JSX or SASS or LESS?

  132. npm install electron-prebuilt-compile npm install electron-packager-compile

  133. What about Ember CLI?

  134. ember install ember-electron

  135. npm install electron-packager

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  138. sindresorhus/awesome-electron

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  140. Turing School: http://turing.io Electron in Action: http://bit.ly/electronjs ¡Gracias! Twitter: @stevekinney