Create desktop applications with Electron

Use pseudo elements HTML, CSS and JavaScript to create cross-platform desktop applications

DOWNLOAD TUTORIAL FILES www.filesilo.co.uk/bks-894 GitHub have created an open source project called Electron (formerly Atom-Shell) that combines Chromium, on which Google’s Chrome is built, and Node.js, a JavaScript environment designed for building applications. The result enables the building of cross-platform desktop applications using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Companies such as Microsoft, Facebook, Slack and more have started to make use of Electron. Electron applications normally start out with a single JavaScript file which is executed initially. The code within it has control over the main process, can create and control new application windows and listen for important events. Each window that is created can be set to render your UI through the use of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The JavaScript executed within a window can also access special Electron APIs…

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