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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)

Rendering a list of accounts

You have already managed to configure the Ethereum JavaScript client with the Electron application and got the node information in the Header area. In this section, we are going to display a list of accounts in the tree component and place it into the sidebar area.

As you may have noticed, the account names are quite long and may not fit in their dedicated area. We are going to make the sidebar scrollable vertically and stop the content from overlapping so that it's hidden under the main content area.

Let's start by changing the main application stylesheet and disabling the layout overflow for our sider component:

  1. Update the App.css file and extend the ant-layout-sider style:
.ant-layout-sider {
background: #3ba0e9;
color: #fff;
line-height: 120px;

overflow: hidden;
overflow-y: scroll;
}

Now, we need to have a dedicated pair of hooks...