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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)

Updating the code to use React Hooks

Before we move on to keyboard handling, let's refactor our Editor implementation a bit so that we can use React Hooks. We need do so this so that we can simplify how the code is handled significantly during load and save operations.

React Hooks is a relatively new feature, and if you have a background in React development, then you may have already heard of it or even used it.

Check out the official documentation on React Hooks to find out more: https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-intro.html.

The most essential hook is the useState one. You are going to use it a lot in your projects. Let's import and use the useState hook so that we can provide a pair of getters and setters for the code text:

  1. Import the useState hook from the react namespace:
import React, { useState } from 'react';
  1. Replace the code variable initializer...