Category: Electron

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Window to Window Messaging with @electron/remote

In a previous article, I covered how to accomplish Window to Window Communication in Electron with a message passing system. Since Electron 14 removed the remote module, this system will not work in older versions. So in this article we will discuss how to upgrade this window to window messaging system to use @electron/remote.

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Adding a Shutdown Dialog to Electron

You may not realize it yet, but there are many occasions where a shutdown dialog can help with UX. For instance, alerting users to important information prior to the app closing. When using the Electron TrayMenu, you could be telling the user, “The app won’t close until you close it from the tray”. Maybe the …

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Window to Window Communication in Electron

In Electron, it is certainly easy to create a multi-window application app in Electron, but what if you want to communicate between these windows? While we run into a restriction in the Chrome V8 Engine, that requires us to avoid remote code execution, there is a great way to accomplish window-to-window communication in Electron. We …

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Writing Complete Apps in Electron

Electron has been a common go-to framework for developing desktop applications, and in that time there have been many unexpected nuances. Many developers would find these issues, and then abruptly move away from Electron because of it. So we will discuss everything you need to write your apps in Electron, as well as show you …

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The Atom Editor IDE and Package Addons

Since I started programming again, I’ve have grown very close to the Atom editor, and for very good reason. Not only is it light-weight, compact, it has the ability to be customized completely! As for functionality, there are many editor options, a lot being similar to Sublime, but even more specific to Atom. Of course …