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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)

Displaying music metadata

Metadata is a piece of additional information about the song you play. Metadata can contain the name of the album, the year of its release, rating, and many other blocks of useful information.

In this section, we are going to display the following metadata when playing a music file:

  • Elapsed time
  • Remaining time
  • Cover image
  • Song name
  • Artist name

Before we start, let's learn how to deal with the song metadata. You can extract the values as follows:

<span data-amplitude-song-info="<PROPERTY>"></span>

<PROPERTY> corresponds to one of the metadata properties for the song object that we defined earlier in the player.js file:

Amplitude.init({
songs: [
{
name: 'Equilibrium I (Cello version)',
artist: 'David Hilowitz',
album: 'Equilibrium I (Cello version)',
url: &apos...