Chapter 3. Building your first desktop application
This chapter covers
- Opening files from the file explorer
- Accessing the filesystem
- Refactoring code using Node.js’s module functionality
- Implementing search features in the desktop app
Building an app is a journey of creating an initial skeleton of the app and progressively adding to the skeleton until it begins to resemble a complete product. The moment when the product comes alive with features is often, for me, the moment I get excited, and in this chapter those moments shall arrive.
In chapter 2, you began a journey of building a file explorer called Lorikeet and got to a stage where you had the UI for a working desktop application. In this chapter, you’ll continue that journey and ...
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