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Using the desktopCapturer API

First of all, you need to be familiar with the desktopCapturer API that Electron provides. According to the official documentation, this API allows you to do the following:

Access information about media sources that can be used to capture audio and video from the desktop using the navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia (https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/API/MediaDevices/getUserMedia) API.

Now, we are going to walk through the basics and introduce the Snip button click event, which has access to the capturing sources:

1. Update the onSnipClick function implementation according to the following code:

      const onSnipClick = async () => {          const { desktopCapturer, remote } = window.require('electron'); const screen ...