What you'll learn:
- Learn how to build desktop apps with Electron
- Create and package 3 complete cross-platform applications
- Use IPC to communicate between Main & Renderer Processes
- Use Vanilla JS & React with Electron
- Create custom menu items, system tray apps and more
- Work with local data as well as MongoDB Atlas database
This is a hands on, project based course on learning how to build and package cross-platform desktop applications using Electron. Many popular apps including VSCode, Slack and Skype are built on Electron.
We will build 3 apps
ImageShrink - An app to optimize images for websites
SystTop - RealTime CPU monitor with notifications and system tray
BugLogger - CRUD app to track logs which uses React and the MongoDB Atlas cloud database
Some stuff you will learn:
Create app windows with BrowserWindow
Create menus with custom items
Menu roles
Shell module to open files and folders
Create system tray icons with context menus
App events
Main process & Renderer process
Communication between processes with IPCMain & IPCRenderer
Packaging Electron apps
Creating log files
Interact with system hardware
Create a data store file with settings data
Integrate React with Electron
Integrate a MongoDB database with Mongoose
Some JavaScript stuff that you may not have known
