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Steve Kinney
October 23, 2015
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Building Desktop Applications with Node and Electron
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Building Desktop Applications with Node and Electron Steve Kinney —
@stevekinney EmpireNode 2015
Hi. I'm Steve
Hi. I'm Steve
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Electron (née Atom Shell)
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?
You want to build an application that has advanced permissions
like accessing the file system.
You want to build a small application that lives in
the user’s menubar or system tray.
You want to build an app that works well offline.
You want to be able to Command/Alt-Tab to your application.
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sindresorhus/caprine
Why is Electron so super cool?
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Chrome Content Module HTML5 support GPU acceleration Blink and V8
Node 4.1 Filesystem access Native modules
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Electron uses a pretty modern build of Chromium.
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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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Ugh. Gross.
Electron applications have all of the freedom of any other
Node process.
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require(…);
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muan/mojibar
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How does Electron work?
npm install -g electron-prebuilt
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Inherently, offline first.
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Building a menu
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npm install -g electron-prebuilt
npm install menubar
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npm install -g electron-packager
npm install -g electron-accelerator
npm install -g electron-compile
The Future for Electron
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sindresorhus/awesome-electron
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