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Electron, Frontend Masters

Steve Kinney
November 15, 2016
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Electron, Frontend Masters

Steve Kinney

November 15, 2016
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  1. Today's Flow Take a 10,000 Foot View Build a Simple

    Bookmarking Application Build a More Complicated Markdown Text Editor Build a Menu Bar Application Package an Application Distribution Tour Some of the Finer Points of the Ecosystem
  2. You want to build a small application that lives in

    the user’s menubar or system tray.
  3. Electron uses a pretty modern build of Chromium. Electron: 1.4.6

    Node: 6.5.0 Chromium: 53.0.2785.143 V8: 5.3.332.47
  4. The web browser lives in a kind of sandbox with

    a bunch of restrictions in place in the name of security.