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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)

Creating a Firebase application

In this section, we are going to register a web application. Follow these steps to do so:

  1. Click the corresponding button on the screen to get to the Create an application dialog:
  1. Next, you need to provide an application nickname. Enter electron-client as the nickname:
The app nickname will be used throughout the Firebase console to represent this app. Nicknames aren't visible to users.
  1. It is also possible to set up Firebase Hosting for your application. Leave the value unchecked for now. Click the Register app button.
  1. Now, you will be presented with an HTML snippet that you will need in order to set up a brand new web application with your Firebase project. It should look similar to the one shown in the following screenshot:

This code contains all the values that are relevant to your current project. Please note that all the keys...