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Electron Projects

By : Denys Vuika
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Electron Projects

By: Denys Vuika

Overview of this book

The Electron framework allows you to use modern web technologies to build applications that share the same code across all operating systems and platforms. This also helps designers to easily transition from the web to the desktop. Electron Projects guides you through building cross-platform Electron apps with modern web technologies and JavaScript frameworks such as Angular, React.js, and Vue.js. You’ll explore the process of configuring modern JavaScript frameworks and UI libraries, real-time analytics and automatic updates, and interactions with the operating system. You’ll get hands-on with building a basic Electron app, before moving on to implement a Markdown Editor. In addition to this, you’ll be able to experiment with major JavaScript frameworks such as Angular and Vue.js, discovering ways to integrate them with Electron apps for building cross-platform desktop apps. Later, you’ll learn to build a screenshot snipping tool, a mini-game, and a music player, while also gaining insights into analytics, bug tracking, and licensing. You’ll then get to grips with building a chat app, an eBook generator and finally a simple digital wallet app. By the end of this book, you’ll have experience in building a variety of projects and project templates that will help you to apply your knowledge when creating your own cross-platform applications.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Integrating the Ant Design library

For the digital wallet application, we are going to use Ant Design components for React.

Ant Design is a design system that uses the values of nature and determinacy to enhance the user experience of enterprise applications. Using Ant Design, you can gain access to an extensive collection of fantastic components so that you can build your applications quickly. Make sure you visit https://ant.design/ to find out more, as well as examples and documentation.

The first thing we are going to do is install the Ant Design library. We are also going to implement a traditional application layout that contains a header, footer, sidebar, and main content area. Let's take a look at the steps for installation:

  1. Run the following command to install the antd library into your project:
npm install antd
There are multiple ways to configure antd with your...