Table of Contents for
Electron in Action

Version ebook / Retour

Cover image for bash Cookbook, 2nd Edition Electron in Action by Steve Kinney Published by Manning Publications, 2018
  1. Cover
  2. Electron in Action
  3. Copyright
  4. Electron in Action
  5. Brief Table of Contents
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. About this book
  10. About the cover illustration
  11. Part 1. Getting started with Electron
  12. Chapter 1. Introducing Electron
  13. Chapter 2. Your first Electron application
  14. Part 2. Building cross-platform applications with Electron
  15. Chapter 3. Building a notes application
  16. Chapter 4. Using native file dialog boxes and facilitating interprocess communication
  17. Chapter 5. Working with multiple windows
  18. Chapter 6. Working with files
  19. Chapter 7. Building application and context menus
  20. Chapter 8. Further operating system integration and dynamically enabling menu items
  21. Chapter 9. Introducing the tray module
  22. Chapter 10. Building applications with the menubar library
  23. Chapter 11. Using transpilers and frameworks
  24. Chapter 12. Persisting user data and using native Node.js modules
  25. Chapter 13. Testing applications with Spectron
  26. Part 3. Deploying Electron applications
  27. Chapter 14. Building applications for deployment
  28. Chapter 15. Releasing and updating applications
  29. Chapter 16. Distributing your application through the Mac App Store
  30. Code from the end of chapter 6
  31. Index
  32. List of Figures
  33. List of Tables
  34. List of Listings

Acknowledgments

One thing that surprised me most about writing a book is how much work it is. Second is how many people are involved in making it happen. First and foremost, I need to thank my wife, Logan, who tolerated my working on this book during nights and weekends that I should have been spending with my family. Her tolerance and support have been crucial in producing this book.

Thank you to Helen Stergius, who put up with deadlines whizzing by as I balanced my family, my day job, and this book—often poorly. Helen kept a positive attitude regardless of how stressed out I was at any given moment. Thank you to Nickie Buckner who ran through the code as I was writing the book, provided encouragement, and fixed my typos along the way. Thanks to Doug Warren who did a final technical pass as the book was nearing completion. Thanks to Brian Sawyer for reaching out and inviting me to write this book in the first place, as well as Marjan Bace who green-lit the project.

Thank you to Marc Grabanski of Frontend Masters for letting me workshop this content in front of a global audience and providing insightful feedback. Thanks to Jeff Casimir for giving me a platform to teach an endless stream of budding software engineers. Thank you to Meeka Gayhart, Louisa Barrett, Jhun de Andreas, Brenna Martenson, and Brittany Storoz for tolerating me as I dropped the ball on various things they were relying on me for, as well as putting up with me in general.

Thank you to the following reviewers, who read this book as it was being developed, and left feedback in the forums: Aiden Mark Humphreys, Alan Bogusiewicz, Alexey Galiulin, Anto Aravinth, Ashwin Raj, Buu Nguyen, Daniel Posey, Frederic Flayol, Harald Kuhn, Hari Khalsa, Iain Shigeoka, Jay Kelkar, Jim McGinn, Jimmy Qiu, Jon Riddle, Matteo Gildone, Mladen Đurić, Philippe Charrière, Raq Khan, and William Wheeler. You helped me improve the content and catch mistakes along the way.

Thank you to Cheng Zhao and all of the people who maintain Electron. Without all of your incredible work, this book would not exist. In addition, your careful attention to detail and user-first mindset made it easy for me explain how to implement features that might otherwise be difficult on another platform. As you read Electron in Action, there will be many times where I just reach for some API that is built-in to Electron to tackle a tricky problem. Thank you to the wonderful community that provides an ecosystem of third-party libraries to help with Electron applications. In the rare case where Electron can’t do something out of the box, there is invariably a library out there that will solve your problem for you. A platform is only as good as the community around it.

Lastly, thank you to Novo Coffee in Denver and their cold brew for giving me a place to write, and the caffeine required to get the words out.