Author: tayyaba

  • How Electron Works

    Electron takes a main file defined in your package.json file and executes it. This main file creates application windows which contain rendered web pages and interaction with the native GUI (graphical user interface) of your Operating System. As you start an application using Electron, a main process is created. This main process is responsible for interacting with the native…

  •  Installation

    To get started with developing using the Electron, you need to have Node and npm(node package manager) installed. If you do not already have these, head over to Node setup to install node on your local system. Confirm that node and npm are installed by running the following commands in your terminal. The above command will generate…

  •  Overview

    Why Electron? Electron enables you to create desktop applications with pure JavaScript by providing a runtime with rich native (operating system) APIs. This does not mean Electron is a JavaScript binding to graphical user interface (GUI) libraries. Instead, Electron uses web pages as its GUI, so you can also see it as a minimal Chromium…