Building Desktop Applications with Node and Electron

1. Building Desktop Applications with Node and Electron Steve Kinney — @stevekinney EmpireNode 2015
2. Hi. I'm Steve
3. Hi. I'm Steve
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9. Electron (née Atom Shell)
10. Electron (née Atom Shell) A framework for building cross-platform desktop applications with web technologies.
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.
22. sindresorhus/caprine
23. Why is Electron so super cool?
26. Chrome Content Module HTML5 support GPU acceleration Blink and V8
27. Node 4.1 Filesystem access Native modules
32. Electron uses a pretty modern build of Chromium.
38. The web browser lives in a kind of sandbox with a bunch of restrictions in place in the name of security.
41. Ugh. Gross.
42. Electron applications have all of the freedom of any other Node process.
45. require(…);
49. hij1nx/levelui
68. muan/mojibar
69. muan/mojibar
70. How does Electron work?
71. npm install -g electron-prebuilt
91. Inherently, offline first.
100. versus
108. No good.
110. require('remote');
121. Building a menu
135. And more…
138. npm install -g electron-prebuilt
139. npm install menubar
142. npm install -g electron-packager
143. npm install -g electron-accelerator
144. npm install -g electron-compile
145. The Future for Electron
147. sindresorhus/awesome-electron
148. sindresorhus/awesome-electron
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