Electron From Scratch: Build Desktop Apps With JavaScript

Name: Electron From Scratch: Build Desktop Apps With JavaScript
Rating: 4.4 (1120 reviews)

Create 3 useful desktop applications with web technologies using Electron

(1,120 ratings)

6,936 students

Created by Brad Traversy

Last updated 5/2020

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What you'll learn

Learn how to build desktop apps with Electron
Create and package 3 complete cross-platform applications
Use IPC to communicate between Main & Renderer Processes
Use Vanilla JS & React with Electron
Create custom menu items, system tray apps and more
Work with local data as well as MongoDB Atlas database

Requirements

JavaScript Fundamentals

Description

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

Featured review

Fabi

16 courses

3 reviews

2 years ago

Very happy about the course. I have been getting into some new areas lately and I'm super happy every time I see that there is a Video/Udemy-course on that topic by Brad Traversy :) Keep up the good work!

Brad Traversy

Full Stack Web Developer & Instructor at Traversy Media

4.6 Instructor Rating
151,095 Reviews
415,598 Students
19 Courses

Brad Traversy has been programming for around 12 years and teaching for almost 5 years. He is the owner of Traversy Media which is a successful web development YouTube channel and specializes in everything from HTML5 to front end frameworks like Angular as well as server side technologies like Node.js, PHP and Python. Brad has mastered explaining very complex topics in a simple manner that is very understandable. Invest in your knowledge by watching Brad's courses.