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Building Cross-Platform Desktop Applications with Electron

By : Muhammed Jasim
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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

Summary


In this chapter, we discussed using standard web technologies inside the Electron application. The first section was about using service worker to enable the resource caching and providing the offline experience when accessing remote content. The next part was about implementing the push notification with service worker inside the Electron application. Finally, we checked how we can store the data inside the shell/browser itself using the standard HTML5 APIs. Instead of directly using the low-level API, we used a custom library so that the storage target can be easily migrated. 

The next chapter will cover testing the Electron application. We will also be discussing how to test a web application as the Electron's user interface is built with web technologies.