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 …
MUI v5 with Emotion
Since the long-awaited release of MUI v5 (Material-UI), a lot has changed, and the migration comes with its own codemod to help make this process easier. The migration guide also focuses on how to ease your app into MUI v5, but by transitioning your into using MUI v5 in a v4-type of way. In this …
Using React Native Admob to Include Ads
I can be awkward including ads into your react-native app for the first time. Using react-native-admob can make this a simple process, but there are some difficulties that come with it. We will go over the process, and how you can test your ads.
Browser Applications – Chrome Extension Programming
Writing Chrome Extensions are easier than you thought. Learn what you need to know, so you can start right away.
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 …
Material UI Themes in React
An additional theme being added to your app, not only adds character to your application, but can also increase accessibility to app. While the Material-UI documentation hasn’t always been clear on how to accomplish this, it’s actually an easy system to become accustom to. We’ll quickly go over how to implement themes and how to …
Type Checking: A Necessity in Dynamic Development
When first learning about type checking, it can be easily seen as an unnecessary addition to an application. When it comes to dynamic languages, type checkers prove themselves invaluable in a rapid development setting, and in a multitude of ways. Once you see the benefits, it is difficult to keep from making it a common …
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 …
Getting Started with Redux: Part 3 – Refactoring
Now that we have a working Redux app now, we should start looking at ways we can optimize our code, as well as take full advantage of redux. In this last part of getting started with redux, we will cover how to take advantage of asynchronous actions, DRYing up our code, and controlling and accessing …
The Redux App – Getting Started with Redux: Part 2
Now that we have an understanding of what benefits we get from redux, we want to see how Redux works. So we are going to go ahead and make a redux app. We will also look at each object’s role, and how they work in redux. In the process we also look at the different …
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