Desktop Apps in a Javascript World - Electron
- 1. Desktop Apps in a Javascript World Marc MacLeod @marbemac
- 2. Me PHP -> Ruby -> Python -> Node / Go Vanilla -> Backbone -> Ember -> Meteor -> React Backend Frontend <3 Techstars & Austin
- 4. JS Desktop Apps? What’s the difference? Web Desktop
- 5. access to node JS Desktop Apps? What’s the difference? access to packages (npm) access to OS specific functionality / features app stores!
- 6. Electron Node-Webkit (NW.js) MacGap Sponsor Github Intel N/A Node? Yes Yes No OS X Store Maybe Maybe Yes Windows Store Yes Yes No Auto-Update Included? Yes No No Native OS Bindings Yes Yes Yes Size > 60mb > 60mb ~1mb The Landscape
- 9. Main Process vs Render Processes main.js
- 10. Sprinkle in some Node (io.js) app.js
- 11. Sprinkle in some native main.js
- 12. IPC! main -> render render -> main Communicating between main and render processes
- 13. electron-packager Distribution https://github.com/maxogden/electron-packager
- 14. Storage / Persistence HTML5 Local Storage NEDB (node) https://github.com/louischatriot/nedb PouchDB (javascript / couch db) http://pouchdb.com/
- 15. What else? Managing a local http server Manage command line apps via node child_process / spawn Load dev tools extensions Auto-Updates (Squirrel Framework)
Editor's Notes
- #7: Electron osx issue: https://github.com/atom/electron/issues/249#issuecomment-130181879 Node osx issue: https://github.com/nwjs/nw.js/issues/3258#issuecomment-82647821