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Steve Kinney
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Setup Instructions http://tinyurl.com/fem-electron (Pull from master one more time on
each repository if you cloned them yesterday.)
Building Desktop Applications with Electron Steve Kinney — @stevekinney
I'm Steve. @stevekinney
http://turing.io
http://bit.ly/electronjs
http://dinosaurjs.org
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
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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.
You want to build a GUI for your Node 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 6.5.0 Filesystem access Native modules
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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
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HTML Imports Shadow DOM Custom Elements Web MIDI API (…and
other hard to draw APIs…)
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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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Electron applications have all of the freedom of any other
Node process.
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require(…);
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You get to choose.
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How does Electron work?
Let's take a look at a everything from a high
level before we dig in.
npm install -g electron
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Inherently, offline first.
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Building a menu
And more…
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No good.
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electron.remote
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Let's get started. https://tinyurl.com/fem-electron http://41391da0.ngrok.io
Code time.
Building Menu Bar Applications with Electron
npm install menubar
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Code time.
Distribution
npm install electron-packager
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Code time.
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npm install electron
What about JSX or SASS or LESS?
npm install electron-prebuilt-compile npm install electron-packager-compile
Want better insight into the user's macOS settings?
npm install electron-osx-appearance
What about an application that launches when the OS boots?
npm install auto-launch
Need a graphical user interface for sudo?
npm install electron-sudo
Want to have local shortcuts that aren't menu items?
npm install electron-localshortcut
Want to use the latest and greatest features coming to
JavaScript?
npm install babel-preset-electron
Did watching me try to manage state make you want
to cry?
npm install electron-redux
What about Ember CLI?
ember install ember-electron
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sindresorhus/awesome-electron
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Electron in Action: http://bit.ly/electronjs Turing School: http://turing.io Thank You Twitter:
@stevekinney