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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)

Displaying Ethereum Node information

Retrieving node information is the first thing we can do to test that the application can connect to our locally running blockchain via the Ganache server.

In this section, we are going to retrieve some basic information and display it in the Header section of the main application page.

We shall touch on the following important aspects in this section:

  • Getting information about the currently running Ethereum node
  • Presenting node information to users on the screen

First, let's learn how to fetch node information.

Getting node information

We already have a web3 client instance. We can use the following API to gather information about the current node:

web3.eth.getNodeInfo(callback...