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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

Customizing the browser window


The BrowserWindow class is used to create and manage the browser windows. We have used this class throughout this book. It provides a lot of features more than just creating a window. The window can be customized as per your requirement using this class. This class provides a rich set of methods and events; let's look at some of them here in this section.

We have just set the width and height inside the browser. However, it can accept a huge list of valid options as the constructor arguments. Some of the options are platform specific that will work only on that platform. Here are some of the important option that you can pass inside the constructor; visit the Electron documentation for a complete list of options-all the options listed here are optional:

  • width: Width of the window.
  • height: Height of the window.
  • x: Left offset.
  • y: Top offset.
  • maxWidth, minWidth: You can set these two options to set the minimum and maximum resizable width of the window.
  • maxHeight, maxHeight...