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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

Customizing the notification


The notification API provides a number of configuration options to customize the look and feel of the notification. You can also define the custom actions that enable users to execute some quick actions from the notification itself. Custom actions can be added to the notification just by passing the action array in to the showNotification method:

 const title = 'Actions Notification';
 const options = {
   actions: [
     {
        action: 'coffee-action',
        title: 'Coffee',
        icon: '/images/demos/action-1-128x128.png'
      },
      {
         action: 'doughnut-action',
         title: 'Doughnut',
         icon: '/images/demos/action-2-128x128.png'
       }
    ]
 };

 options.body = `This notification can displays action button `;

 registration.showNotification(title, options);

This will show the action button in the notification, similar to the following image:

To handle the actions inside the notification, you need to handle the notification click...