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Cross-platform Desktop Application Development: Electron, Node, NW.js, and React. Build desktop applications with web technologies

Cross-platform Desktop Application Development: Electron, Node, NW.js, and React. Build desktop applications with web technologies

Dmitry Sheiko

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Building and maintaining cross-platform desktop applications with native languages isn’t a trivial task. Since it’s hard to simulate on a foreign platform, packaging and distribution can be quite platform-specific and testing cross-platform apps is pretty complicated.In such scenarios, web technologies such as HTML5 and JavaScript can be your lifesaver. HTML5 desktop applications can be distributed across different platforms (Window, MacOS, and Linux) without any modifications to the code.

The book starts with a walk-through on building a simple file explorer from scratch powered by NW.JS. So you will practice the most exciting features of bleeding edge CSS and JavaScript. In addition you will learn to use the desktop environment integration API, source code protection, packaging, and auto-updating with NW.JS.

As the second application you will build a chat-system example implemented with Electron and React. While developing the chat app, you will get Photonkit. Next, you will create a screen capturer with NW.JS, React, and Redux.

Finally, you will examine an RSS-reader built with TypeScript, React, Redux, and Electron. Generic UI components will be reused from the React MDL library. By the end of the book, you will have built four desktop apps. You will have covered everything from planning, designing, and development to the enhancement, testing, and delivery of these apps.
  • 1. Creating a file explorer with NW.js: Planning, Design and Development
  • 2. Creating a file explorer with NW.js: Enhancement and Delivery
  • 3. Creating a chat system with Electron and React: Planning, Design and Development
  • 4. Creating a chat system with Electron and React: Enhancement, Testing and Delivery
  • 5. Creating a screen capturer with NW.js, React and Redux: Planning, Design and Development
  • 6. Screen capturer with NW.js, React and Redux: Enhancement, Testing and Delivery
  • 7. RSS aggregator: Planning, Design and Development
  • 8. RSS aggregator: Enhancement, Testing and Delivery
  • Tytuł: Cross-platform Desktop Application Development: Electron, Node, NW.js, and React. Build desktop applications with web technologies
  • Autor: Dmitry Sheiko
  • Tytuł oryginału: Cross-platform Desktop Application Development: Electron, Node, NW.js, and React. Build desktop applications with web technologies
  • ISBN: 9781788299299, 9781788299299
  • Data wydania: 2017-07-27
  • Format: Ebook
  • Identyfikator pozycji: e_15n4
  • Wydawca: Packt Publishing