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Electron: From Beginner to Pro: Learn to Build Cross Platform Desktop Applications using Github's Electron
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Electron: From Beginner to Pro: Learn to Build Cross Platform Desktop Applications using Github's Electron

by Chris Griffith, Leif Wells
November 2017
Beginner
274 pages
6h 17m
English
Apress
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© Chris Griffith, Leif Wells 2017

Chris Griffith and Leif Wells, Electron: From Beginner to Pro, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2826-5_11

11. Online/Offline Detection

Chris Griffith1  and Leif Wells2

(1)San Diego, California, USA

(2)Atlanta, Georgia, USA

These days, developers tend to assume that the people using their applications are always online. One could even assume that just because someone is using a desktop or laptop computer, they will be within reach of an Ethernet cable or Wi-Fi signal. Reality teaches us that this assumption isn’t correct and that as a developer of desktop applications we need to plan accordingly.

Using the cloud to store the artifacts of a user’s activities is a normal condition of modern web applications. You would ...

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