Chapter 2. Your first Electron application
This chapter covers
- Structuring and setting up an Electron application
- Generating a package.json, and configuring it to work with Electron in development
- Including a prebuilt version of Electron for your platform in your project
- Configuring your package.json to start up your main process
- Creating renderer processes from your main process
- Taking advantage of Electron’s relaxed sandboxing restrictions to build functionality that normally would not be possible
inside of the browser
- Using Electron’s built-in modules to side-step some common issues
In chapter 1, we discussed what Electron is at a high level. That said, this book is called Electron in Action, right? In this chapter, we learn the ropes ...