Electron in Action

Appendix. Code samples from Fire Sale and Clipmaster 9000

Fire Sale is an only slightly clever play on price markdowns—because it’s a Markdown editor after all. Clipmaster 9000 is a simple UI for the Clipmaster application.

Code from the end of chapter 6

Listing 1. Fire Sale’s main process: ./app/main.js

const { app, BrowserWindow, dialog } = require('electron'); const fs = require('fs'); const windows = new Set(); const openFiles = new Map(); app.on('ready', () => { createWindow(); }); app.on('window-all-closed', () => { if (process.platform === 'darwin') { return false; } }); app.on('activate', (event, hasVisibleWindows) => { if (!hasVisibleWindows) { createWindow(); } }); const createWindow = exports.createWindow = () => { let x, y; const ...