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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)

Fitting the screen size

If you keep experimenting with your application at runtime, you may notice that the editor component doesn't fit the whole application area once you start resizing the window or maximizing it. To address this, we need to add some CSS styles to tell the component it needs to fit the parent width and height.

Please note that, at the lower level, SimpleMDE wraps another great component called CodeMirror.

CodeMirror is a versatile text editor that's implemented in JavaScript for the browser. It is specialized for editing code and comes with a number of language modes and addons that implement more advanced editing functionality.

Here, we are going to add flex layout features to the whole body of the HTML base and add some styling support for the CodeMirror part, which is part of SimpleMDE. Let's get started:

  1. Update the styles in the index.html...