Electron From Scratch: Build Desktop Apps With JavaScript Download
Create 3 useful desktop applications with web technologies using Electron 
What you’ll learn
- Learn how to build desktop apps with Electron
- Create and package 3 complete cross-platform applications
- Use IPC to communicate between Main & Renderer Processes
- Use Vanilla JS & React with Electron
- Create custom menu items, system tray apps and more
- Work with local data as well as MongoDB Atlas database
Requirements
- JavaScript Fundamentals
Description
This is a hands on, project based course on learning how to build and package cross-platform desktop applications using Electron. Many popular apps including VSCode, Slack and Skype are built on Electron.
We will build 3 apps
ImageShrink – An app to optimize images for websites
SystTop – RealTime CPU monitor with notifications and system tray
BugLogger – CRUD app to track logs which uses React and the MongoDB Atlas cloud database
Some stuff you will learn:
- Create app windows with BrowserWindow
- Create menus with custom items
- Menu roles
- Shell module to open files and folders
- Create system tray icons with context menus
- App events
- Main process & Renderer process
- Communication between processes with IPCMain & IPCRenderer
- Packaging Electron apps
- Creating log files
- Interact with system hardware
- Create a data store file with settings data
- Integrate React with Electron
- Integrate a MongoDB database with Mongoose
- Some JavaScript stuff that you may not have known
Who this course is for:
- Developers that want to build desktop apps with web technologies
