Electron From Scratch: Build Desktop Apps With JavaScript

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 Electron From Scratch: Build Desktop Apps With JavaScript course on discovering how to build and package cross-platform desktop applications utilizing Electron. Many popular apps consisting of 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 utilize React and the MongoDB Atlas cloud database

Some things you will find out:

• Make app windows with BrowserWindow
• Create menus with custom-made products
• Menu roles
• Shell module to open files and folders
• Make system tray icons with context menus
• App events
• Main procedure & Renderer procedure
• Communication among processes with IPCMain & IPCRenderer
• Packaging Electron apps
• Creating log files
• Interact with system hardware
• Create a data store file with settings data
• Incorporate React with Electron
• Incorporate a MongoDB database with Mongoose
• Some JavaScript stuff that you may not have actually known

Who this course is for:

• Developers that want to build desktop apps with web innovations

Created by Brad Traversy
Last updated 5/2020
English
Size: 2.28GB

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https://www.udemy.com/course/electron-from-scratch/