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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)

Exploring the playback control buttons

We have made excellent progress with our music player application so far. You now have a play/pause button that works and allows you to listen to a song from within the Electron application. Of course, a single button isn't enough for a music player. In this section, we are going to implement a traditional set of buttons to control the music playback.

For comfortable user experience, we need to have at least the following buttons:

  • Play/pause
  • Stop
  • Mute/unmute
  • Volume up/down

You have already implemented the Play / Pause button, so let's move on to the Stop button.

Stop button

So far, our users can start the playback and pause it. However, there is no way for us to stop and...