The difference in the native operating system environment is one of the key challenges when developing a cross-platform desktop application. Even though the Electron provides cross-platform APIs and functionalities without having much development efforts, this can be a barrier when you need a deeper operating system environment integration. This chapter discusses how to integrate your Electron application deep into the underlying operating system and its environments. This chapter will be discussing how to use operating system components and APIs from your Electron application. The following points will be discussed in this chapter:
- Desktop notifications and alerts
- Dock menu and taskbar integration
- Using Electron APIs to integrate with the desktop environments
- Using Node.js runtime and libraries and accessing the operating system components when Electron does not provide a native implementation for that
- Creating custom native implementation to...