Kinney Steve. Electron in Action

Manning Publications, 2019. — 376 p. — ISBN: 1617294144, 978-1617294143.Electron in Action guides you, step-by-step, as you learn to build cross-platform desktop applications that run on Windows, OSX, and Linux. By the end of the book, you'll be ready to build simple, snappy applications using JavaScript, Node, and the Electron framework.Wouldn't it be great to build desktop applications using just your web dev skills? Electron is a framework designed for exactly that! Fully cross-platform, Electron lets you use JavaScript and Node to create simple, snappy desktop apps. Spinning up tools, games, and utilities with Electron is fast, practical, and fun!Electron in Action teaches you to build cross-platform applications using JavaScript, Node, and the Electron framework. You'll learn how to think like a desktop developer as you build a text tool that reads and renders Markdown. You'll add OS-specific features like the file system, menus, and clipboards, and use Chromium's tools to distribute the finished product. You'll even round off your learning with data storage, performance optimization, and testing.What's insideBuilding for macOS, Windows, and Linux
Native operating system APIs
Using third-party frameworks like React
Deploying to the Mac App StoreRequires intermediate JavaScript and Node skills. No experience building desktop apps required.Steven Kinney is a principal engineer at SendGrid, an instructor with Frontend Masters, and the organizer of the DinosaurJS conference in Denver, Colorado, the Director of the Front-End Engineering program at the Turing School of Software and Design and a front-end developer. Previously, he was Director of Educational Technology at the Council for Economic Education and a New York City teacher for seven years.Introducing Electron
Your first Electron application
Building a notes application
Using native file dialog boxes and facilitating interprocess communication
Working with multiple windows
Working with files
Building application and context menus
Further operating system integration and dynamically enabling menu items
Introducing the tray module
Building applications with the menubar library
Using transpilers and frameworks
Persisting use data and using native Node.js modules
Testing applications with Spectron
Building applications for deployment
Releasing and updating applications
Distributing your application through the Mac App Store