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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

Debugging an Electron application


Debugging Electron applications is very similar to debugging JavaScript code for web applications. But here we need to take care of different types of Electron processes. The main process and renderer process (or the rendered web page) should be debugged separately as these processes are running separately. In the following sections, we will look at how to debug both of these processes. We have a couple of options to debug the application. This chapter will provide you with step-by-step instructions to fix development bugs easily with debuggers.

Nowadays, most editors provide great debugging support for Node.js applications. In addition, node binaries provide built-in support for debugging the application via Chrome Developer Tools. Electron can also make use of these tools to debug the application. This section will provide you with step-by-step explanations on how to use Visual Studio Code and Chrome Developer Tools to debug both the main process and renderer...