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Building Desktop Applications with Node and Electron

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Transcript

  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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  7. http://turing.io

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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.
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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.

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  22. sindresorhus/caprine

  23. Why is Electron so super cool?

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

  27. Node 4.1 Filesystem access Native modules

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  32. Electron uses a pretty modern build of Chromium.

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  38. 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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  41. Ugh. Gross.

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

    Node process.
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  45. require(…);

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  49. hij1nx/levelui

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  68. muan/mojibar

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  70. How does Electron work?

  71. npm install -g electron-prebuilt

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  91. Inherently, offline first.

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  110. require('remote');

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  121. Building a menu

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  135. And more…

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  138. npm install -g electron-prebuilt

  139. npm install menubar

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  142. npm install -g electron-packager

  143. npm install -g electron-accelerator

  144. npm install -g electron-compile

  145. The Future for Electron

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  147. sindresorhus/awesome-electron

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  150. Thank you. Twitter, Github, and like everything else: @stevekinney Slides:

    https://speakerdeck.com/stevekinney Be a mentor or hire our students: http://turing.io