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

© 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_8

8. WebContents, Screens, and Locales

Chris Griffith¹  and Leif Wells²

(1)San Diego, California, USA

(2)Atlanta, Georgia, USA

The development team at GitHub has added many good features to Electron. There are a few features that we would like to make you aware of and experiment with in this chapter.

First, we’ll take a look at a property of the BrowserWindow called webContents, which has many events and methods but we’ll be focusing on a few items with which we think you should become familiar: capturing events, managing windows, and capturing a window as an image or pdf file. After that, we’ll take a look at the ...