Electron Projects

Configuring a new project

Let's start our journey by configuring a new Electron project and naming it markdown-editor since we are building a markdown editor application. You can create a corresponding folder with the following commands:

mkdir markdown-editorcd markdown-editor

As you may recall from Chapter 1, Building Your First Electron Application, we need to initialize a new project with the npm init command. You should also install electron, the core library that provides an application shell. In addition, your project needs an electron-builder library, which allows you to publish and distribute features for multiple platforms. Let's get started:

1. Run the following commands to set up a new project:

      npm init -y      npm i -D electron npm ...