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Browsers won. Every day you use like 100 apps, and 99 of them are browser apps. Or phone apps, which are basically browser apps with extra steps. Most of the rest are games. This is especially true for cross-platform apps, where every alternative - l...
An Electron app is sort of two apps in one. There's the frontend app controlling the frontend, and the backend app controlling the backend, and they communicate like they're two separate programs. We already wrote a small backend app in the previous ...
Let's do something that frontend code can't do on its own - run shell commands. Run a single command Electron on the backend is basically node process, with some extras for communicating with the browser. Now it would much prefer you to use complicat...
Let's do something a little more advanced with Electron - generate some HTML dynamically, and load it into the browser window. There's no direct functionality for this, but we can use data: URLs. Load data URL into the web view let { app, BrowserWind...
The approach used in previous episode, of constructing an enormous data URL, is not very scalable. Electron offers surprisingly many alternatives, and unfortunately you'll need to know more than one, because the more powerful ones (which we'll get to...
In previous episode we created a small app that displays how much free disk space you have, in a very boring way. Now it's time to spice it up! We won't touch the backend at all, and only modify the frontend. Install D3 First we need to install D3. $...