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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

Introduction to JavaScript testing


Testing an application is a complicated process similar to development. It should validate the application against the possible bugs and errors and should check whether the code produces the targeted results properly. Different types of testing methodologies need to be carried out while developing an application from unit testing to integration testing. Testing the very basic unit of your code can be carried out using unit testing frameworks. Let's check how this works in common for JavaScript applications. Testing a JavaScript function with unit testing frameworks is very simple. For example, let's test a simple JavaScript function using the popular JavaScript testing framework, Mocha.

Mocha is a very popular testing framework. It has a number of good features and browser support that need an entire book to be explained. So, let's just look into a simple example with Mocha that is enough to get an idea. To read more about Mocha, visit https://mochajs.org...