BUY ELECTRON FROM SCRATCH: BUILD DESKTOP APPS WITH JAVASCRIPT

ELECTRON FROM SCRATCH: BUILD DESKTOP APPS WITH JAVASCRIPT





Create 3 useful desktop applications with web technologies using Electron. 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
  

Requirements:

• JavaScript Fundamentals

Who this course is for:

• Developers that want to build desktop apps with web technologies

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