Integrating Electron in the workspace
The Electron framework is an npm package that we can install using the following command:
npm install -D electron
The previous command will install the latest version of the electron npm package in the Angular CLI workspace. It will also add a respective entry into the devDependencies section of the package.json file of our project.
Electron is added to the devDependencies section of the package.json file because it is a development dependency of our application. It is used only to prepare and build our application as a desktop one and not during runtime.
Electron applications run on the Node.js runtime and use the Chromium browser to render. A Node.js application has at least a JavaScript file, usually called index.js or main.js, which is the main entry point of the application. Since we are using Angular and TypeScript as our development stack, we will start by creating a separate TypeScript file that will be finally...