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Building Desktop Applications with Electron, JSConf Colombia 2016

Building Desktop Applications with Electron, JSConf Colombia 2016

Steve Kinney

October 07, 2016
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  1. http://bit.ly/electron-jsconfco

    Clone down the two repositories and run npm
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  2. Building Desktop
    Applications with Electron
    Steve Kinney — @stevekinney
    JSConf Colombia 2016

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  3. Hi. I'm Steve

    @stevekinney

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  4. http://turing.io

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  5. http://dinosaurjs.org

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  6. http://bit.ly/electronjs

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  10. Electron (née Atom Shell)

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  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?

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

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

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

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

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

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  23. sindresorhus/caprine

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  24. Why is Electron so
    super cool?

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

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  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

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  55. How does Electron
    work?

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

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  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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  106. electron.Menu

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  115. electron.globalShortcut

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  116. electron.globalShortcut

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  117. 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

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  128. npm install menubar

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  131. What about JSX
    or SASS or LESS?

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

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  133. What about
    Ember CLI?

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  134. ember install
    ember-electron

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  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

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