Book description
Cross-Platform Desktop Applications guides you step-by-step through creating Node.js desktop applications with NW.js and Electron from GitHub.
About the Technology
Desktop application development has traditionally required high-level programming languages and specialized frameworks. With Electron and NW.js, you can apply your existing web dev skills to create desktop applications using only HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. And those applications will work across Windows, Mac, and Linux, radically reducing development and training time.
About the Book
Cross-Platform Desktop Applications guides you step by step through the development of desktop applications using Electron and NW.js. This example-filled guide shows you how to create your own file explorer, and then steps through some of the APIs provided by the frameworks to work with the camera, access the clipboard, make a game with keyboard controls, and build a Twitter desktop notification tool. You'll then learn how to test your applications, and debug and package them as binaries for various OSs.
What's Inside
- Create a selfie app with the desktop camera
- Learn how to test Electron apps with Devtron
- Learn how to use Node.js with your application
About the Reader
Written for developers familiar with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
About the Author
Paul Jensen works at Starcount and lives in London, UK.
Quotes
You will be shocked by how easy it is to write a desktop app!
- From the Foreword by Cheng Zhao, Creator of Electron
Write-once/run-anywhere just became a real thing.
- Stephen Byrne, Dell
The definitive guide to two paradigm-shifting JavaScript frameworks. Indispensable.
- Clive Harber, Distorted Thinking
Packed full of examples that will help you write cross-platform desktop apps using JavaScript.
- Jeff Smith, Ascension
Table of contents
- Copyright
- Brief Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About this Book
- About the Author
- About the Cover
- Part 1. Welcome to Node.js desktop application development
- Part 2. Diving deeper
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Part 3. Mastering Node.js desktop application development
- Chapter 7. Controlling how your desktop app is displayed
- Chapter 8. Creating tray applications
- Chapter 9. Creating application and context menus
- Chapter 10. Dragging and dropping files and crafting the UI
- Chapter 11. Using a webcam in your application
- Chapter 12. Storing app data
- Chapter 13. Copying and pasting contents from the clipboard
- Chapter 14. Binding on keyboard shortcuts
- Chapter 15. Making desktop notifications
- Part 4. Getting ready to release
- Appendix. Installing Node.js
- Index
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Listings
Product information
- Title: Cross-Platform Desktop Applications
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 2017
- Publisher(s): Manning Publications
- ISBN: 9781617292842
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