Electron: From Beginner to Pro

1. Introduction

2. Installing Electron

3. The Electron Quick Start

4. BrowserWindow Basics

5. Adding Custom Menus

6. Understanding the IPC Module

7. Working with the Dialog Module

8. WebContents, Screens, and Locales

9. The Dock Icon on macOS

10. Shell

11. Online/Offline Detection

12. Advanced BrowserWindow

13. Debugging Your Electron Application

14. Testing with Spectron

15. Building Your Application

16. Auto Updating Your Application

17. Additional Resources

Chris Griffith is the User Experience Lead at a home automation and security company and is also an instructor at UCSD Extension teaching mobile application development. He has over 17 years of experience in developing user experiences for a variety of clients and platforms. He is also an Adobe Community Professional and is regularly invited to speak at conferences such as Adobe MAX, ngConf, UXPA and HTML5DevConf. He has developed several mobile applications, a variety of code hinters, and ConfiGAP for PhoneGap Build. In addition, he has served as a technical reviewer for several publications, and written for uxmag.com. You can follow him on twitter @chrisgriffith or at chrisgriffith.wordpress.com. Leif Wells is a web, mobile and desktop application developer. Leif's professional experience spans technologies from CD-ROM and desktop applications, Web sites and applications, as well as mobile applications. His current focus is building Web applications using Angular or React and building cross-platform hybrid mobile applications using Ionic. Leif provides insight into his experiences at his blog. Leif's Development Blog-o-rama as well as speaking at user groups and conferences.