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Building Cross-Platform Desktop Applications with Electron

By : Muhammed Jasim
Book Image

Building Cross-Platform Desktop Applications with Electron

By: Muhammed Jasim

Overview of this book

<p>Though web applications are becoming increasingly popular, desktop apps are still important. The Electron framework lets you write cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, and this book will teach you how to create your first desktop application with Electron. It will guide you on how to build desktop applications that run on Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms.</p> <p>You will begin your journey with an overview of Electron, and then move on to explore the various stages of creating a simple social media application. Along the way, you will learn how to use advanced Electron APIs, debug an Electron application, and make performance improvements using the Chrome developer tools. You’ll also find out how to package and distribute an application, and more.</p> <p>By the end of the book, you will be able to build a complete desktop application using Electron and web technologies. You will have a solid understanding of the common challenges that desktop app developers face, and you’ll know how to solve them.</p>
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Chapter 10. Dealing with Web Standards

Modern browsers are very fast at implementing the web standard defined by W3C. As the Electron aligns with the latest version of the chromium, most of these features are available in Electron also. Even though we have native capabilities with Electron, these features are useful and more productive than the native or custom approach. For example, when your application requests a remote resource or your pages and assets are hosted on a remote server, using a service worker is better than implementing a custom resource caching mechanism. In this chapter, we will be looking into using these technologies and features in our Electron applications. This will give you a brief idea about increasing the productivity using the built-in web standard features that are available in the chromium or Electron shell.

These are the standard APIs that are well known for web application development. Here we are not targeting to discuss the details of the API, but we will...