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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)

Generating ePub books

In this section, we are going to create a book in ePub format from the markdown content. The implementation steps should already be familiar to you now that you've gone through the HTML and PDF conversions.

On the browser side, let's slightly optimize the function so that we can run the conversion. Previously, we created separate functions, that is, generateHTML and generatePDF, to send a message to the generate channel.

If you take a look at the implementations of these functions carefully, you should notice that they only differ in terms of the format field. Instead of creating a third function called generateEPUB, I would suggest making the code more reusable.

Let's refactor our code and introduce the generateOutput function:

  1. Create the generateOutput function, which covers every generation scenario:
const generateOutput = (format, text...