What you’ll learn

1. Learn how to build desktop apps with Electron
2. Create and package 3 complete cross-platform applications
3. Use IPC to communicate between Main & Renderer Processes
4. Use Vanilla JS & React with Electron
5. Create custom menu items, system tray apps and more
6. 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

Who this course is for:
Developers that want to build desktop apps with web technologies

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