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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)

Supporting offline mode

By default, the Nucleus library expects your users to have an internet connection to send tracking events. However, you may be wondering what happens if users run your application when they're offline, for example, during a flight or when they're on the tube.

The good news is that you can turn on offline support for Nucleus-enabled Electron applications. This allows us to store the application events locally, cached to disk, and send them to the analytics server once the application is back online.

Use the persist property to enable or disable caching for events:

const Nucleus = require("electron-nucleus")("<App Id>", {
persist: true
});

As you can see, enabling offline mode support for your application's analytics is not difficult with the Nucleus library.

Next, let's learn how to handle application updates...