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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)

Understanding analytics and tracking

As soon as you release the first version of your Electron-based application into production, you may need to gather some statistics regarding how your customers use the application. Then, you can use that information to improve the product and boost the downloads or sales of your application if it's commercial. Some examples of how we can use this information are as follows:

  • Improving distribution and sales: Imagine that, according to analytics, most of your user base is coming from the macOS world. You may want to provide more macOS integration or focus on strengthening support for other platforms, for example. The same goes for geographical locations. You may see the need to improve advertising for a particular set of countries that lack downloads or purchases.
  • Improving product quality: The critical aspect of any successful application...