Electron Projects

Creating a simple application

Let's walk through a typical hello world application with Electron, package it, and see it running on all platforms. Let's get started:

1. Somewhere in your projects folder, create a new directory called my-first-app and navigate to it, as shown in the following code:

      mkdir my-first-app      cd my-first-app

2. Now, we need to initialize our new project with the NPM tool by using the following command:

      npm init

The tool asks a series of questions, such as the name of the project, a user-friendly description, version, author information, and a license. Feel free to enter any details you want. For our first example project, you can specify any values you want.

Next time, if you want to set up quickly with a single command ...