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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)

Improving the user interface

At this point, you have a draft implementation of the user interface, along with a set of playback control and visualization components. Now is a perfect time to take a break and revisit the look and feel of our application.

In this section, we are going to polish the interface and make it more appealing to our users.

First of all, let's change the default size of the player. You may have already noticed that, in its current form, it takes up less space than the size of the window. Follow these steps to get started:

  1. Switch to the main.js file and set its size to 480x500. This should be enough for now. You can use the following code for reference:
const { app, BrowserWindow } = require('electron');

function createWindow() {
const win = new BrowserWindow({
width: 480,
height: 500,
webPreferences: {
nodeIntegration: true...