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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)

Adding drag and drop support

Another nice feature you can provide for your small markdown editor application is the ability to drag and drop files onto the window. Users of your application should have the ability to drop a markdown file onto the editor's surface and have the content of the file immediately available to them. This scenario also helps us address some extra features of the Electron framework that you may use later. Let's get started:

  1. The easiest way to enable drop support for an entire web page running in Electron is to set the ondrop event handler for the body element:
      <body ondrop="dropHandler(event);">
<!-- page content -->
</body>
  1. For now, the drop handler implementation can be as simple as putting a message into the browser console's output. The most important part here is to prevent the default...