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Electron From Scratch: Build Desktop Apps With JavaScript (2020)

Date: 11 February 2025 | Posted by: AD-TEAM

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
jаvascript 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 jаvascript stuff that you may not have known

Who this course is for:
Developers that want to build desktop apps with web technologies

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