Creating a project scaffold

As in all the previous chapters, let's start by creating a project scaffold. We are going to call our project music-player; it is going to use a pure JavaScript and HTML5 stack without any additional frameworks. You can always wire a framework of your choice later.

Let's create a new project using the Terminal window or Command Prompt:

1. Navigate to your projects or home folder.
2. Run the following commands in your Terminal window or Command Prompt:

mkdir music-player
cd music-player

The preceding commands create a new directory for your music player application.

3. Now it's time to initialize the project and generate the package.json file. Use the following commands to set up an npm project:

npm init -y
echo node_modules > .gitignore
npm i -D electron

As you can see, besides setting up a new project with NPM, we've also generated a...