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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)

Verifying real-time user statistics

In this section, we are going to verify that our real-time user statistics are getting updated on the fly. Follow these steps to do so:

  1. Shut down your Electron application and wait for about a minute. It may take some time for these changes to be propagated. Sometimes, you need to wait for a minute, but sometimes waiting a few seconds will be enough. Be patient and give the backend server time to organize the data.
  2. Switch back to the Analytics tab and reload the page. You should see the updated data. In our case, the Real-time users chart shows zero, as shown in the following screenshot:

This makes perfect sense as we have just unloaded the application. Note, however, that our session is still present in other charts:

  • 24h users: 1
  • 24h new users: 1
  • 24h sessions: 1

Now, you can track real-time usage of your Electron application. However,...