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Electron Projects

by Denys Vuika
November 2019
Beginner
436 pages
8h 52m
English
Packt Publishing
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Integrating with the application menu

In this section, we are going to perform a basic integration with the application menu. You are going to create a Help/About Node menu that sends the show-node-info command to the renderer process. Our React application is going to handle the command and display a simple alert box with the Ethereum node information. Later on, you can provide a more sophisticated dialog with detailed information.

Let's start with the main process and the Menu template:

  1. Switch to the public/electron.js file and import the Menu object from the Electron framework:
const { app, BrowserWindow, Menu } = require('electron');
  1. Append the Menu code from the following listing to the bottom of file:
Menu.setApplicationMenu( Menu.buildFromTemplate([ ...
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