Cross-platform Desktop Application Development: Electron, Node, NW.js, and React

Handling windowing actions

Coming back to the file-explorer, we can start with the TitleBarActions module that listens to user click events on title bar buttons and performs the corresponding windowing action. First, we need to mark the action nodes in HTML. The ./index.html file contains the following code:

<header class="l-app__titlebar titlebar" data-bind="titlebar">   ...   <a class="titlebar__btn" data-bind="close" > ;</a> </header> 

Here, we specify our bounding box (data-bind="titlebar") and the close window button (data-bind="close"). Let's begin with the only button. The ./js/View/TitleBarActions.js file contains the following code:

class TitleBarActionsView {    constructor( boundingEl ){     this.closeEl = boundingEl.querySelector( ...